Also known as Wairarapa N166/522
Where: Wairarapa, New Zealand (41.2° S, 175.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° S, 176.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Onoke Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Nukumaruan NZ stage. Listed as "Onoke Series"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: No collection details listed. Material reposited in IGNS collections (formerly NZ Geol. Surv. coll.'s). Collected by Victoria University graduate students and P. Vella (1948-1954).
Primary reference: P. Vella. 1954. Tertiary Mollusca from South-East Wairarapa. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 81(4):539-555 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35686: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Diplodonta (Zemysina) cf. globus Finlay 1926 clam |