Waimana f566 (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 8594

Where: New Zealand (38.2° S, 177.1° E: paleocoordinates 67.1° S, 177.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Teratan (90.5 - 86.1 Ma)

• Teratan

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, blue, silty mudstone and shelly/skeletal packstone

• mud and silt, moderately hard and non-calcareous, dark blue-grey with shellbeds

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 37307: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 09.03.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus nukeus