Q08/f9639, Southern banks of Opu Creek, Upper Kaipara Harbour (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

Where: North Auckland, New Zealand (36.2° S, 174.3° E: paleocoordinates 57.1° S, 174.3° W)

When: Otamatea Formation, Haumurian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, concretion

Primary reference: R. A. Henderson. 1970. Ammonoidea from the Mata Series (Santonian-Maastrichtian) of New Zealand. Special Papers in Palaeontology 6:1-82 [C. Jaramillo/I. Romero/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 233889: authorized by Paul Scofield, entered by Paul Scofield on 08.03.2024

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phyllopachyceras forbesianum d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
"Pseudophyllites peregrinus" = Pseudophyllites latus
"Pseudophyllites peregrinus" = Pseudophyllites latus Marshall 1926 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
"Maorites tenuicostatus" = Maorites tenuicostatum Marshall 1917 ammonite
Maorites multiconstrictus n. sp. Henderson 1970 ammonite
Jacobites (Jacobites) quadratus n. sp. Henderson 1970 ammonite
Jacobites (Jacobites) marwicki n. sp. Henderson 1970 ammonite
Gunnarites spathi n. sp. Henderson 1970 ammonite