Downstream from road junction, Retaruke River: Tortonian, New Zealand
collected by K.W. Kenthorpe
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Aturiidae
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Aturia coxi
Miller 1947
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | New Zealand |
Coordinates: | 39.1° South, 175.2° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 43.8° South, 177.0° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Mount Messenger | Member: | Kohu | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "Middle Tongaporutuan from mapping." Exact location is uncertain, although all outcrops in the general vicinity are mapped as the Kohu Member of the Mount Messenger Formation. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
Environment: | submarine fan |
Geology comments: Mount Messenger Formation interpreted as submarine fan (Kamp et al., 2004) |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collectors: | K.W. Kenthorpe |
Collection method comments: Repository: K.W. Kenthorpe collection |
Metadata
Database number: | 180132 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2016-07-08 21:25:32 | Last modified: | 2019-08-11 16:14:31 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-07-08 21:25:32 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
59708. | A. G. Beu. 1973. Nautiloids of the genus Aturia from the uppermost Miocene of Australia and New Zealand. Science Reports of the Tohoku University. Second Series, Geology. Special Volume (Hatai Memorial Volume) 6:297-308 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |