Also known as New Zealand N34/9
Where: North Auckland, New Zealand (36.3° S, 174.3° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° S, 177.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Waitemata Group, Late/Upper Oligocene to Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• Listed as "basal portion of the Waitemata Group"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; medium-grained conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Also mentioned as present are "brachiopods and indeterminate corals"; collected by C.A. Fleming (1944)
Primary reference: D.F. Squires. 1962. A scleractinian coral faunule from Cape Rodney. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 5:508-514 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35734: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 |