Baton River, loc: 128 (Devonian of New Zealand)

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

• Listed as Deep midshelf. Lithology from Bradshaw (1988); age from Strusz (1972)
• Sandy mudstone with irregular sand layers and bioturbation, but rare fossils

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

• Estimates 688 individual specimens
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Homalonotus sp. König 1825 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Calymene angustior" = Calymene (Gravicalymene) angustior
"Calymene angustior" = Calymene (Gravicalymene) angustior Chapman 1915 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Goldius sp. deKoninck 1841 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Centronellidae
Centronella sp. Billings 1859
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
 Rhynchonellida - Eatoniidae
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
"Spirifer (Acrospirifer) arduennensis" = Arduspirifer arduennensis
"Spirifer (Acrospirifer) arduennensis" = Arduspirifer arduennensis Schnur 1853
 Spiriferida - Cyrtinopsidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
"Schizophoria provulvaria" = Schizophoria (Rhenoschizophoria) provulvaria Mauer 1886
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Pentamerida - Subrianidae
Conchidium sp. Oehlert 1887
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
"Hipparionyx minor" = Hipparionix
"Hipparionyx minor" = Hipparionix
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Strophodonta stephani" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
Originally "Stropheodonta stephani" Assuming spelling error.
Pholidostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes "indet. sp. 1" Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Chonetes "indet. sp. 2" Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Cryptostomata - Semicosciniidae
Semicoscinium sp. Prout 1859
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Leioclema sp. Ulrich 1882
Originally "Lioclema sp." Assumed spelling error
 Cyclostomata - Hederellidae
Hederella sp. Hall 1883
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterinea sp. Goldfuss 1832 oyster
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
Cypricardinia sp. Hall 1860 clam
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Chlorophyceae
  - Receptaculitidae
Trigeria
  -
Trigeria sp. Bayle 1878