Where: New Zealand (40.0° S, 174.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.2° S, 175.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: 3 Member (Baton River Formation), Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, bioturbated, sandy mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Bradshaw (1988: 780) notes this collection primarily from member 3
Primary reference: J. Shirley. 1938. The fauna of the Baton River Beds (Devonian), New Zealand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 44:459-506 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77223: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 02.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Homalonotus sp. König 1825 trilobite | |
"Calymene angustior" = Calymene (Gravicalymene) angustior
"Calymene angustior" = Calymene (Gravicalymene) angustior Chapman 1915 trilobite | |
Goldius sp. deKoninck 1841 trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Centronella sp. Billings 1859 | |
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"Spirifer (Acrospirifer) arduennensis" = Arduspirifer arduennensis
"Spirifer (Acrospirifer) arduennensis" = Arduspirifer arduennensis Schnur 1853 | |
Schizophoria allani, "Schizophoria provulvaria" = Schizophoria (Rhenoschizophoria) provulvaria
"Schizophoria provulvaria" = Schizophoria (Rhenoschizophoria) provulvaria Mauer 1886 | |
Conchidium sp. Oehlert 1887 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Hipparionyx minor" = Hipparionix
"Hipparionyx minor" = Hipparionix | |
"Strophodonta stephani" = Strophomena (Strophodonta), Pholidostrophia sp.
"Strophodonta stephani" = Strophomena (Strophodonta) Originally "Stropheodonta stephani" Assuming spelling error.
Pholidostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Brachyprion sp. Shaler 1865 | |
Chonetes "indet. sp. 1" Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Chonetes "indet. sp. 2" Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Semicoscinium sp. Prout 1859 | |
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Hederella sp. Hall 1883 | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam | |
Pterinea sp. Goldfuss 1832 oyster
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster | |
Cypricardinia sp. Hall 1860 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Pleurodictyum cf. selcanum tabulate coral
Pleurodictyum megastomum tabulate coral | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Trigeria | |
Trigeria sp. Bayle 1878 |