Auckland GS 3310 (Oligocene to of New Zealand)

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

• Collections originate from "basal portion of the Waitemata Group, in the coase basal conglomerate and intercalated grit beds, where these are in contact with the greywackes of the Waipapa Group".
• Listed as "Medium conglomerate and grit"

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

• No a complete taxonomic list
Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805