Waimana f536 (Jurassic to of New Zealand)

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

• mudstone and siltstone, moderately hard and non-calcareous, dark blue-grey

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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop