Also known as GS1100; Coll# 3053 (Hendy PhD)

Where: New Zealand (44.6° S, 171.0° E: paleocoordinates 52.0° S, 168.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Waikareka Volcanic Formation (Alma Group), Kaiatan (39.1 - 36.7 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Waikareka Volcanic Formation, which is the basal unit of the Alma Group, which is overlain by the Totara Limestone (Runangan), and in turn is overlain locally by Deborah Volcanic Fm (Whaingaroan). AGE: Kaiatan of Gage (1957) = Early Priabonian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, fine-grained, medium, calcareous tuff

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).

Primary reference: M. Gage. 1957. The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 55 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67839: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.12.2006, edited by Mark Uhen

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