G47/f7587 - Balclutha-Papatowai Highway, Otago: Aalenian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Vaugonia (Hijitrigonia) kahuika Fleming 1987
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 46.5° South, 169.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:77.6° South, 42.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Aalenian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Aalenian
Age range of interval:174.70000 - 170.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Lower Temaikan = Aalenian.
Lithology and environment
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology of lithification, not stated in text. Presumed to be lithified on the basis of age.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, not stated in text.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: I.G. Speden, 1956. REPOSITORY: Presumably the University of Otago (OU), Dunedin, New Zealand.
Taxonomic list comments:COMPLETENESS: Limited, however exhaustive, to taxonomic group covered in monograph (Trigoniacea). NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and use of subgeneric and species names. IDENTIFICATION: All older collections re-identified by C.A. Fleming.
Metadata
Also known as:OU3307
Database number:63734
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-08-19 18:53:46 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-19 18:53:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18321. C. A. Fleming. 1987. New Zealand Mesozoic Bivalves of the Superfamily Trigoniacea. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 53 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]