Also known as T10/f8505
Where: North Island, New Zealand (36.6° S, 175.5° E: paleocoordinates 46.3° S, 179.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Torehina Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• late Oligocene: Duntroonian or Duntroonian to mid-Waitakian
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; calcareous siltstone and fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. K. Eagle and B. W. Hayward. 1993. Oligocene paleontology and palaeoecology of Waitete Bay, Northern Coromandel Peninsula. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 30:13-26 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 205949: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.10.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Scaphopoda | |
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Fissidentalium solidum tusk shell | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Neilo sinangula Finlay 1926 clam | |
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Quadrilatera cf. januaria Marwick 1926 clam | |
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Cucullaea (Latiarca) worthingtoni Hutton 1873 clam | |
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Flemingostrea wollastoni oyster | |
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Dosinia (Austrodosinia) sodalis Marwick 1929 venus clam | |
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Hedecardium (Hedecardium) waitakiense Suter 1907 cockle | |
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Panopea worthingtoni Hutton 1873 clam | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Polinices (Polinella) blaesus Marwick 1929 moon snail
Magnatica (Magnatica) planispira Suter 1917 moon snail | |
| Sedentaria | |
| Anthozoa | |
"Flabellum distinctum" = Flabellum pavoninum
"Flabellum distinctum" = Flabellum pavoninum Lesson 1831 stony coral | |
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Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
| Nodosariata | |
"Dentalina soluta" = Nodosaria soluta
"Dentalina soluta" = Nodosaria soluta Reuss 1851 | |
| Foraminifera | |
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Sphaeroidina bulloides d'Orbigny 1826 | |
| Globothalamea | |
| Foraminifera | |
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Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
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Globigerina euapertura Jenkins 1960 | |