Also known as GS6920
Where: New Zealand (38.1° S, 177.1° E: paleocoordinates 73.8° S, 169.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Urutawan to Urutawan (108.4 - 103.3 Ma)
• Urutawan-Motuan, fossil from boulder not significantly transported
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, blue, argillaceous siltstone and shelly/skeletal packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: I. A. Speden. 1973. Distribution, stratigraphy and stratigraphic relationships of Cretaceous sediments, western Raukumara Peninsula, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 16(2):243-268 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37251: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 09.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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