N3, North Mathesons Bay (R09/f137, L17567): Aquitanian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Alcyonacea - Isididae
Keratoisis dactyla
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agariciidae indet. Gray 1847
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Bathylasmatidae
Bathylasma aucklandicum (Hector 1888)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Notosariidae
Notosaria antipoda (Thomson 1918)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Magasella neozelandica (Ihering 1903)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Crenostrea gittosina
spelled with current rank as Pycnodonte (Crenostrea)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima colorata Hutton 1873
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Sarmaturbo superbus
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Phyllacanthus titan
see common names

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:shelly/skeletal 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:146344
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-06-21 23:34:48 Last modified:2018-07-08 19:24:44
Access level:the public Released:2013-06-21 23:34:48
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]