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
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Keratoisis dactyla
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agariciidae
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Agariciidae indet.
Gray 1847
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Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Bathylasmatidae
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Bathylasma aucklandicum
(Hector 1888)
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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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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Crenostrea gittosina
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spelled with current rank as Pycnodonte (Crenostrea) | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Lima colorata
Hutton 1873
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Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Calliostoma sp.
Swainson 1840
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Gastropoda
- Turbinidae
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Sarmaturbo superbus
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Echinoidea
- Cidaroida
- Cidaridae
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Phyllacanthus titan
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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] |