R13/f6609 - Port Waikato, Auckland: Kimmeridgian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus haasti Hochstetter 1863
recombined as Retroceramus haasti
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia malayomaorica (Krumbeck 1923)
recombined as Malayomaorica malayomaorica
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella (Scaphogonia) macnaughti Fleming 1987
Fleming 1987
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis sp. Bayle 1878
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 37.4° South, 174.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:82.0° South, 58.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Basal Ohauan stage = Late Kimmeridgian-early Tithonian, here assigned to Kimmeridgian.
Lithology and environment
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology or 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
Museum repositories:IGNS
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: B.R. Paterson, 1952, and re-collected by G.R. Stevens and B.C. Waterhouse (1969). REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, 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:GS10764
Database number:63742
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-08-19 19:43:47 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-19 19:43:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18344. B.H. Purser. 1961. Geology of the Port Waikato Region (Onewhero Sheet N51). New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 69 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

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