KE/f71 Dayrell 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 - Merulinidae
Favites flexuosa (Dana 1846)
Montastrea curta (Dana 1846)
original and current combination Astrea curta
Favia ? speciosa (Dana 1846)
recombined as Dipsastraea speciosa
Goniastrea australensis (Milne Edwards and Haime 1857)
Cyphastrea serailia (Forskal 1775)
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:Dayrell
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of the formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology:volcaniclastic sandstone
Lithology description: in situ coral fauna within volcaniclastic-bioclastic gravelly coarse sandstone immediately above the conglomerate and algal hardgrounds
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Geology comments: 30-40 m water depth
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:85100
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-11-27 01:58:42 Last modified:2008-11-27 03:58:42
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]