I3, Mathesons Bay Islet (R09/f142, LI17572): Aquitanian, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agariciidae
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Agariciidae indet.
Gray 1847
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Schizasteridae
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Opissaster rotundatus
(Zittel 1864)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Lima colorata
Hutton 1873
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Serripecten hutchinsoni
Hutton 1873
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Terebratellidae
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Magasella neozelandica
(Ihering 1903)
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Notosariidae
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Notosaria antipoda
(Thomson 1918)
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Thecostraca
- Verrucomorpha
- Verrucidae
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Verruca (Metaverruca) sculpta
(Aurivillius 1898)
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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: | shelly/skeletal lithified sandstone |
| Environment: | shoreface |
| Geology comments: 6 m + of decimetre-metre bedded, slightly shelly, medium to coarse sandstone and fine pebbly, very coarse sandstone with frequent ray feeding structures | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 146348 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-06-22 00:08:32 | Last modified: | 2018-07-08 19:32:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-06-22 00:08:32 |
| 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] |