Where: Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (29.2° S, 177.8° W: paleocoordinates 30.2° S, 177.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Boat Cove Formation (Herald Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; volcaniclastic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. J. Brook. 1998. Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pleistocene submarine volcanic-sedimentary sequences at the northern Kermadec Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28(2):235-257 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85086: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Florideophyceae | |
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Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816 | |
| Anthozoa | |
"Coscinaraea columna" = Psammocora columna
"Coscinaraea columna" = Psammocora columna Dana 1846 stony coral | |
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Pavona minuta Wells 1954 stony coral | |
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Leptastrea transversa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral | |
"Favia ? speciosa" = Dipsastraea speciosa, "Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta, Cyphastrea serailia, Goniastrea australensis
"Favia ? speciosa" = Dipsastraea speciosa Dana 1846 stony coral
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta Dana 1846 stony coral
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral
Goniastrea australensis Milne Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral | |
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Scolymia australis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
| Echinoidea | |
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Talabrica iredalei clam | |
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Lutraria bruuni clam | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Bursa granularis Röding 1798 frog shell | |
"Cypraea cernica" = Erosaria cernica
"Cypraea cernica" = Erosaria cernica Sowerby 1870 cowry | |
| Polychaeta | |
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? Spirobranchus sp. Blainville 1818 | |
| Gymnolaemata | |
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Celleporina sp. Gray 1848 | |