Also known as S10/f6, S10/f7, S10/f8
Where: North Island, New Zealand (36.7° S, 175.4° E: paleocoordinates 46.3° S, 179.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Torehina Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• late Oligocene: Duntroonian or Duntroonian to mid-Waitakian
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; calcareous siltstone and fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. K. Eagle. 1993. A new fossil isocrinid crinoid from the Oligocene of Waitete Bay, Northern Coromandel. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 30:1-12 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 204564: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 11.09.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Flabellum distinctum" = Flabellum pavoninum
"Flabellum distinctum" = Flabellum pavoninum Lesson 1831 stony coral | |
Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Polychaeta | |
Scaphopoda | |
Fissidentalium solidum tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea (Latiarca) worthingtoni Hutton 1873 clam | |
Quadrilatera cf. januaria Marwick 1926 clam | |
Flemingostrea wollastoni oyster | |
Hedecardium (Hedecardium) waitakiense Suter 1907 cockle | |
Dosinia (Austrodosinia) sodalis Marwick 1929 venus clam | |
Panopea worthingtoni Hutton 1873 clam | |
Neilo sinangula Finlay 1926 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Magnatica (Magnatica) planispira Suter 1917 moon snail
Polinices (Polinella) blaesus Marwick 1929 moon snail | |