New Zealand N165/515: Late Pliocene, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Beu et al. 1990
unclassified
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand State/province:Wairarapa County:Makara
Coordinates: 41.3° South, 174.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.2° South, 176.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pliocene
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Onoke
Regional section:Makara Stream
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Nukumaruan NZ stage. Listed as "Onoke Series"
Lithology and environment
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: No lithology listed
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:forearc basin
Geology comments: No geologic information listed
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: No collection details listed. Material reposited in IGNS collections (formerly NZ Geol. Surv. coll.'s). Collected by Victoria University graduate students and P. Vella (1948-1954).
Taxonomic list comments:Not an exhaustive taxonomic list of even the mollusca
Metadata
Also known as:Wairarapa N165/515
Database number:35687
Authorizer:A. Hendy, A. Miller Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-01-04 20:28:08 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-01-04 20:28:08
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

9626.1% 20480P. Vella. 1954. Tertiary Mollusca from South-East Wairarapa. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 81(4):539-555 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

11706 A. G. Beu, P.A. Maxwell, and R.C. Brazier. 1990. Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 58 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]