Whakanekeneke River (Cretaceous of New Zealand)
Where: Auckland, New Zealand (35.3° S, 173.8° E: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 179.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Piripauan (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
• limestone concretion
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. F. Squires. 1962. Additional Cretaceous and Tertiary corals from New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Geology 1(9):133-150 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85546: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.01.2009
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Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa | |
"Wellsotrochus conicus n. sp." = Wellsotrochus cyathiformis
"Wellsotrochus conicus n. sp." = Wellsotrochus cyathiformis Squires 1958 stony coral | |
Cephalopoda | |
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Lima multiradiata" = Acesta (Acesta) multiradiata
"Lima multiradiata" = Acesta (Acesta) multiradiata Gabb 1869 file clam |