KE/f55 Raoul Island: Early/Lower Pleistocene, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona maldivensis (Gardiner 1905)
Pavona minuta Wells 1954
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Coscinaraea columna (Dana 1846)
original and current combination Psammocora columna
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites flexuosa (Dana 1846)
Cyphastrea serailia (Forskal 1775)
Goniastrea australensis (Milne Edwards and Haime 1857)
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
Celleporina sp. Gray 1848
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae informal indet. B Rafinesque 1835
? Spirobranchus sp. Blainville 1818
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys cellularis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus raoulensis Oliver 1915
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Pododesmus cf. zelandica
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Periglypta sp. Jukes-Browne 1914
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama informal sp. B Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Eucyclidae
Herpetopoma foveolata
spelled with current rank as Euchelus (Herpetopoma)
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Clanculus cf. stigmatarius
Thecostraca
Cirripedia indet. Rafinesque 1816
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinaceae
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand State/province:Kermadec Islands
Coordinates: 29.3° South, 177.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.2° South, 177.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Herald Formation:Boat Cove
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:volcaniclastic sandstone
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: lens of volcaniclastic breccia-conglomerate, volcaniclastic gravelly sandstone and coarse sandstone and minor bioclastic limestone; transported fossil assemblage
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: transported downslope into deeper water
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:85085
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-11-26 04:04:45 Last modified:2008-11-26 06:04:45
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
28585. F. J. Brook. 1998. Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pleistocene submarine volcanic-sedimentary sequences at the northern Kermadec Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28(2):235-257 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]