Waitete Bay (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Also known as S10/f9512

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

• sheltered marine environment at deep inner shelf depths (20-50m)
• calcareous siltstone and fine sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. K. Eagle and B. W. Hayward. 1993. Oligocene paleontology and palaeoecology of Waitete Bay, Northern Coromandel Peninsula. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 30:13-26 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 205946: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Foraminifera
  -
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
  - Chilostomellidae
Sphaeroidina bulloides d'Orbigny 1826
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
 Textulariina -
 Lituolacea - Ataxophragmiidae
 Rotaliina - Cassidulinidae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae