S6, South Mathesons Bay (R09/f135, L17565): Aquitanian, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Pachylasmatidae
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? Pachylasma southlandicum
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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 sandstone |
| Environment: | basinal (siliciclastic) |
| Geology comments: 0-0.1 m of lenticular, shelly sandstone in shallow depressions atop the underlying units. Shells are the disarticulated plates of the large barnacle Bathylasma aucklandica (part of pebbly coquina facies of Ricketts et al. 1989, upper unit of Kawau Subgroup) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 146341 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-06-21 22:01:02 | Last modified: | 2018-07-08 19:28:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-06-21 22:01:02 |
| 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] |