L28/f8499 - Burma Road [Kaiata Mudstone]: Kaiatan - Runangan, New Zealand
collected by Wilding 1945

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Schizaster informal sp. A Agassiz 1835
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 41.6° South, 171.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:54.0° South, 179.4° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Kaiatan - Runangan
Age range of interval:37.20000 - 34.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kaiata Mudstone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unknown lithostratigraphic unit, but probably Kaiata Mudstone. AGE: Kaiatan-Runangan (late Eocene), on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in unit.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Shale. LITHIFICATION: Unknown, but probably poorly lithified.
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:IGNS
Collectors:Wilding Collection dates:1945
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Wilding, A.P.B., 1945. REPOSITORY: GNS, New Zealand
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to Spatangoida. Other taxonomic groups (e.g., foraminifera) are probably present. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative nomenclature, although somewhat antiquated.
Metadata
Also known as:S24/f0499
Database number:155830
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-05-02 22:33:03 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2014-05-02 22:33:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

50994. R. A. Henderson. 1975. Cenozoic Spatangoid Echinoids from New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 46:1-129 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]