Also known as GS 6925
Where: New Zealand (38.2° S, 177.1° E: paleocoordinates 79.2° S, 174.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Jurassic to Late/Upper Jurassic (163.5 - 145.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, blue mudstone and siltstone
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 37284: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 09.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop |