Also known as GS 5845

Where: New Zealand (39.4° S, 175.7° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° S, 176.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Beds containing plentiful fossils. Youngest Tertiary marine sediments in the district. Listed as "Wanganui Series" in the Gregg (1960), but these rocks are now mapped as Matemateaonga Formation, and will be Opoitian (Early Pliocene) in age (Hendy, 2003).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal, sandy mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Gregg et al. Likely to be reposited in IGNS (N.Z. Geol. Surv.) collections.

Primary reference: D. R. Gregg. 1960. The geology of Tongarairo Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 40 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45027: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.09.2004

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