Where: New Zealand (38.5° S, 177.3° E: paleocoordinates 73.2° S, 170.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Karekare Siltstone Formation, Urutawan to Urutawan (108.4 - 95.2 Ma)
• Urutawan-Ngaterian stages (middle Albian to Cenomanian)
Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, gray, blue siltstone and sandstone
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 37061: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 26.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Aucellina euglypha scallop
Aucellina cf. gryphaeoides Sowerby 1836 scallop | |
Inoceramus hakarius clam |