S5, South Mathesons Bay (R09/f134, L17564): Aquitanian, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Cidaroida
- Cidaridae
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Phyllacanthus titan
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Schizasteridae
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Opissaster rotundatus
(Zittel 1864)
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Notosariidae
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Notosaria antipoda
(Thomson 1918)
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Terebratellidae
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Magasella neozelandica
(Ihering 1903)
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Polychaeta
- Sabellida
- Serpulidae
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Protula cf. turbularia
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Tropicolpus (Amplicolpus) gittosinus
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Lima colorata
Hutton 1873
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Crenostrea gittosina
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| spelled with current rank as Pycnodonte (Crenostrea) | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Eucrassatella ampla
(Zittel 1863)
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Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Balanidae
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Tasmanobalanus grantmackiei
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Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Bathylasmatidae
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Bathylasma aucklandicum
(Hector 1888)
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Geography
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Coordinates: | 36.3° South, 174.8° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.9° South, 177.8° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Aquitanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Aquitanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 20.44000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Waitemata | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Early Otaian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified conglomerate |
| Environment: | shoreface |
| Geology comments: 0-1 m of lenticular, fossiliferous, subangular to subrounded, cobble and pebble conglomerate. Many clasts are encrusted with calcareous algae (part of pebbly coquina facies of Ricketts et al. 1989) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 146340 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-06-21 21:53:58 | Last modified: | 2018-07-08 19:19:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-06-21 21:53:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 47276. | M. K. Eagle, B. W. Hayward, J. A. Grant-Mackie and M. R. Gregory. 1999. Fossil communities in an Early Miocene transgressive sequence, Mathesons Bay, Leigh, Auckland. Tane (37)43-67 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause] |