Dannevirke GS 2475: Early/Lower Miocene, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Cucullaeidae
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Cucullaea sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymerita sp.
Finlay and Marwick 1937
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Limopsidae
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Limopsis sp.
Sassi 1827
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Hedecardium cf. waitakiensis
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Notocorbula humerosa
Hutton 1885
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia awamoaensis
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Flabellidae
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Flabellum cf. sphenodeum
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | New Zealand | State/province: | Dannevirke | County: | Mangatoro |
Coordinates: | 40.3° South, 176.2° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 47.9° South, 179.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Miocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Ihungia |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal poorly lithified sandstone | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Lithology description: Listed as "shelly limestone". Formation "consists largely of massive dark-grey, nodular mudstones of slightly green or blue tinge", Lillie (1953) | |||
Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | forearc basin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Collection method comments: No collection methods provided in text; material likely reposited in IGNS collections, New Zealand. Collected by A.R. Lillie (1940) | |
Taxonomic list comments:Representative list of mollusca, echinoidea, bachiopoda and coelentearata |
Metadata
Also known as: | Geological Survey coll. 2475 | ||
Database number: | 35655 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-01-02 19:09:06 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | group members | Released: | 2005-01-02 19:09:06 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
9452. | A.R. Lillie. 1953. The Geology of the Dannevirke Subdivision. New Zealand geological Survey Bulletin 46 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |