KE/f66 Napier Island: Early/Lower Pleistocene, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinaceae
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea transversa Klunzinger 1879
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites flexuosa (Dana 1846)
Montastrea curta (Dana 1846)
original and current combination Astrea curta
Goniastrea australensis (Milne Edwards and Haime 1857)
Cyphastrea serailia (Forskal 1775)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona minuta Wells 1954
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Turbinaria sp. Oken 1815
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
Celleporina sp. Gray 1848
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae informal indet. B Rafinesque 1835
? Spirobranchus sp. Blainville 1818
Thecostraca
Cirripedia indet. Rafinesque 1816
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand State/province:Kermadec Islands
Coordinates: 29.2° South, 177.8° 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
Stratigraphy comments: upper formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:volcaniclastic sandstone
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: volcaniclastic gravelly sandstone and boulder conglomerate lens; corals grew attached to tops and sides of boulders and over each other, forming small bioherms
Environment:perireef or subreef
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:85090
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-11-26 05:46:40 Last modified:2008-11-26 07:46:40
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]