R13/f6631-R13/f6634 - Opuatia Stream, Port Waikato: Puaroan, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Belemnitida
- Belemnopseidae
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Belemnopsis sp.
(Bayle 1878)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Buchiidae
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Buchia hochstetteri
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Geography
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Coordinates: | 37.4° South, 174.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 86.0° South, 62.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5-6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Puaroan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 150 - 145 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Puaroan, Zone A = Late Tithonian. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray lithified mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Grey mudstone and shale. 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: A.P. Mason and B.F. Purser (late 1950's). REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COMPLETENESS: Exhaustive for bivalvia, cephalopoda, and brachiopoda. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, although identified by specialist. IDENTIFICATION: All older collections re-identified by C.R. Laws | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | N51/631-N51/634 | ||
| Database number: | 63867 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-08-23 01:48:48 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-23 01:48:48 |
| 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] |