Also known as GS10153

Where: New Zealand (38.4° S, 177.3° E: paleocoordinates 75.7° S, 170.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Te Wera Sandstone Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Te Wera Sandstone of the Taitai Series, overlies Torelsse supergroup along Maccoyella Ridge and is unconformably overlying by the the Koranga Sandstone. THICKNESS: From bed within formation that varies in thickness between 91-183 m (regionally). AGE: Urutawan of Wellman (1956) = Middle to Upper Albian based on presence in unit of Aucellina radiatostriata and Maccoyella reflecta (Day 1969, Day and Speden 1970). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 420 ft above base of formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, pebbly siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: I.G. Speden. REPOSITORY: GSNZ (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).

Primary reference: I.G. Speden. 1975. Cretaceous stratigraphy of Raukumara Peninsula. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 91 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65663: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.09.2006

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