North Canterbury (Miocene of New Zealand)
Also known as Weka Pass
Where: New Zealand (43.0° S, 172.7° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° S, 176.3° W)
When: Mt Brown "E" Limestone Formation, Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)
• base of the uppermost Mt Brown "E" Limestone Formation
•just above the Hinnites Shellbed
•"E" Limestone (acc. to Thomson)
Environment/lithology: marine; yellow, sandy limestone
• yellowish, friable, fossiliferous, sandy limestone which yields large numbers of free Polyzoa
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: D. A. Brown. 1952. The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand. 1-405 [L. Liow/F. Franeck]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 173830: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 19.10.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gymnolaemata | |
"Cellepora" "sp. 1" Linnaeus 1767
"Cellepora" ? glomerata MacGillivray 1887
Celleporina lichenoporoides n. sp. Brown 1952
Celleporina tiara MacGillivray 1887 | |
"Retepora" avicularis MacGillivray 1883
"Retepora" bartrumi n. sp. Brown 1952 | |
Chiastosella diagonalis n. sp., Chiastosella aff. granulata, Chiastosella porosa, "Schizoporella" scissa n. sp., "Schizoporella" glebosa
Chiastosella diagonalis n. sp. Brown 1952
Chiastosella aff. granulata MacGillivray 1895
Chiastosella porosa Canu and Bassler 1935
"Schizoporella" scissa n. sp. Brown 1952
"Schizoporella" glebosa Brown 1952 | |
Microporella ciliata Pallas 1766
Microporella hyadesi Jullien 1888
Fenestrulina malusii Audouin 1826 | |
Petraliella firmata Waters 1887 | |
"Crepidacantha crinispina" = Crepidacantha poissonii crinispina
"Crepidacantha crinispina" = Crepidacantha poissonii crinispina Levinsen 1909 Crepidacantha crinispina parvipora
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Iodictyum acanthoides n. sp. Brown 1952
Hippellozoon novaezelandiae Waters 1895 | |
Hippoporina pertusa Esper 1796 | |
Smittina purpurea Hincks 1881 | |
Hippomenella bituberosa Brown 1952 | |
Spiroporina pentagona d'Orbigny 1842
Spiroporina polypora Brown 1952 | |
Anarthropora biarmata Waters 1882 | |
Cellaria immersa Tenison-Woods 1880
Cellaria tenuirostris Busk 1852 | |
Hippothoa distans MacGillivray 1869 | |
Escharina waiparaensis n. sp.
Escharina waiparaensis n. sp. Brown 1952 | |
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Hippopodina feegeensis Busk 1884 | |
Didymosella larvalis MacGillivray 1869 | |
Figularia cf. tenuicosta MacGillivray 1895
Figularia huttoni Brown 1952 | |
Odontionella cyclops Busk 1854
Macropora grandis Hutton 1873 Macropora grandis forma urceolata, originally described by Hutton as Lepralia urceolata
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Micropora coriacea Johnston 1847
Selenaria nitida Maplestone 1909 | |
Ellisina pyriformis Canu and Bassler 1935
Crassimarginatella sileni Brown 1952
Valdemunitella pyrula Hincks 1881
Amphiblestrum trifolium Wood 1844 | |
Escharoides angela Hutton 1873 | |
Holoporella tridenticulata Busk 1881 | |
Porella marsupium MacGillivray 1869
Porella ? concreta Brown 1952 | |
Arachnopusia bugei n. sp. Brown 1952
Arachnopusia unicornis Hutton 1873 | |
Umbonula bicuspis Hincks 1883 |