Horseshoe Bend, near: Waiauan, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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unclassified
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Mollusca indet.
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Antozoa indet.
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| corals | ||||||||||
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Cirripedia indet.
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| barnacles | ||||||||||
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Cetacea indet.
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| cetaceabs | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Aves indet.
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Reptilia
- Procellariidae
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Pelecanoides sp.
Lacépède 1799
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Chondrichthyes
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Selachimorpha indet.
Nelson 1984
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Geography
| Country: | New Zealand | State/province: | South Island |
| Coordinates: | 43.1° South, 172.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.0° South, 178.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Waiauan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 13.05000 - 11.04000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Double Corner Shell Beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: dated as Waiauan (mid-Miocene, 11-13 Ma) on the basis of their contained Mollusca (Gregg 1959) and from microfaunal evidence from the nearby Dovedale area (Wilson 1963). |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: brown, fine-grained, poorly lithified sandstone with shelly layers packed with abundant molluscs, less common echinoids, corals and barnacles, and rare vertebrate remains, including cetaceans, sharks and birds (Browne and Field 1985) | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | N34/f0110 | ||
| Database number: | 196692 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-09-28 12:29:11 | Last modified: | 2018-09-28 12:29:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-09-28 12:29:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 40410. | R. P. Scofield, N. Hiller, and A. A. Mannering. 2006. A fossil diving petrel (Aves: Pelecanoididae) from the mid-Miocene of North Canterbury, New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 20:65-71 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen] |