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

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
"Wellsotrochus conicus n. sp." = Wellsotrochus cyathiformis
"Wellsotrochus conicus n. sp." = Wellsotrochus cyathiformis Squires 1958 stony coral
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima multiradiata" = Acesta (Acesta) multiradiata
"Lima multiradiata" = Acesta (Acesta) multiradiata Gabb 1869 file clam