Where: North Otago, New Zealand (45.1° S, 170.9° E: paleocoordinates 52.4° S, 169.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; tuffaceous, volcaniclastic, calcareous conglomerate
•The mean-water depth of the Alma/Fortification Road rockground is estimated to be around 25 m
•moderately current-swept channel adjacent to small volcanic islands and seamounts
•"mobile rockground" of encrusted pebbles and cobbles in calcareous, tuffaceous volcanic conglomerate horizons
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: chemical, sieve,
• Preparation: both encrusted clasts and iso1ated bryozoan fragments were soaked overnight in undiluted domestic bleach (NaOCl solution), following controlled sonication (usually several seconds), samples were thoroughly washed by gentle tumbling in clean water, then dried.
•Samples selected for study of agglutinated sediment particles were gently washed without bleaching or sonication.
Primary reference: D. E. Lee, J. Scholz, and D. P. Gordon. 1997. Paleoecology of a Late Eocene Mobile Rockground Biota from North Otago, New Zealand. Palaios 12(6):568-581 [L. Liow/F. Franeck]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172815: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 26.08.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata | |
Hornera sp. Lamouroux 1821 | |
Oncousoecia sp. Canu 1918 | |
? Tubulipora sp. Lamarck 1816
? Idmidronea sp. Canu and Bassler 1920 | |
Plagioecia sp. Canu 1918 | |
? Diaperoecia sp. Canu 1918 | |
Crisia "sp. 1" Lamarck 1812
Crisia "sp. 2" Lamarck 1812 | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Amastigia "sp. 1" Busk 1852
Amastigia "sp. 2" Busk 1852 | |
? Umbonulidae indet. Canu 1904 | |
? Tessaradoma sp. Norman 1869 | |
Hippellozoon sp. Canu and Bassler 1917
Plagiopora alma Gordon and Braga 1994 | |
Cellaria "sp. 1" Ellis and Solander 1786
Cellaria "sp. 2" Ellis and Solander 1786 | |
Phidoloporidae indet. Gabb and Horn 1862
Reteporella "sp. 1" Busk 1884
Reteporella "sp. 2" Busk 1884
? Rhynchozoon sp. Hincks 1895 | |
? Lepraliellidae indet. Vigneaux 1949
? Buchneria sp. Harmer 1957 | |
Arachnopusia sp. Jullien 1886 | |
Chaperiopsis "sp. 1" Uttley 1949
Chaperiopsis "sp. 2" Uttley 1949
Chaperiopsis "sp. 3" Uttley 1949
Bryopastor sp. Gordon 1982 | |
Pyriporoides ? willetti Brown 1952
Callopora sp. Gray 1848
Valdemunitella sp. Canu 1900
Onychoblestrum hastingsae Brown 1952 | |
Emma sp. Gray 1843 | |
Aspidostoma curvatum Uttley 1949
Macroporina waimatukuensis Uttley 1949 | |
Micropora sp. Gray 1848 | |
? Orthoscuticella sp. Wass and Yoo 1975 | |
Selenariidae indet. Busk 1854 |