Waihere Bay, Pitt Island (CH/f0775): Late Cenomanian, New Zealand
collected 2012
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Buprestidae
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1 specimen |
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| GNS AR2511 |
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Carabidae
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1 specimen |
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| GNS AR2512 |
| see common names |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Coordinates: |
44.3° South, 176.2° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 77.5° South, 75.5° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
| Period: | Cretaceous |
Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian |
10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Late Cenomanian |
| Age range of interval: | 100.5 - 93.9 m.y. ago |
| Formation: | Tupuangi |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
| Stratigraphy comments: New Zealand Chronostratigraphy: Ngaterian Stage; late Cenomanian, Trichotomosulcites subgranulatus Assemblage Zone of New Zealand |
| Primary lithology: | lithified carbonaceous siltstone |
| Lithology description: Interbedded, medium- to fine-grained sandstone and carbonaceous siltstone facies, which host abundant plant matter. The arthropods in this paper were preserved in association with abundant fossil leaf litter. |
| Environment: | fluvial-deltaic indet. |
| Geology comments: These sediments were deposited in a fluvial–deltaic setting with intermittent stratified water bodies, such as swamps and oxbow lakes. |
| Modes of preservation: | adpression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | IGNS |
| Collection dates: | 2012 |
| Database number: | 182480 |
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham |
Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2016-10-31 19:00:47 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2016-10-31 19:00:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 60684. | | J. D. Stilwell, J. J. Vitacca, and C. Mays. 2016. South polar greenhouse insects (Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera) from the mid-Cretaceous Tupuangi Formation, Chatham Islands, eastern Zealandia. Alcheringa 40:502-508 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |