Also known as Geological Survey coll. 2476
Where: Dannevirke, New Zealand (40.3° S, 176.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° S, 177.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mapiri Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Formation "beds overlying the Tutamoe Formation....Pourerere Fault ...brings Mapiri beds against Ihungia beds", Lillie (1953)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: No collection methods provided in text; material likely reposited in IGNS collections, New Zealand. Collected by A.R. Lillie (1940)
Primary reference: A.R. Lillie. 1953. The Geology of the Dannevirke Subdivision. New Zealand geological Survey Bulletin 46 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35770: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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