Q07/f145, Whangarei Eochelone monstigris type locality (Eocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (35.7° S, 174.4° E: paleocoordinates 47.8° S, 179.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Ruatangata Sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• in lower half of Ruatangata Sandstone; placed in Runangan New Zealand Stage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic sandstone

• The bones occurred in a concentration about 1m horizontally and 0.30m vertically in moderately hard, dark-grey to dark-green, vaguely bedded, glauconitic medium sandstone striking along the cutting and dipping gently into it. The exposure is some 50m long, 12m high, with no bones found separate from this concentration.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by JH and P. Hill in 2005

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: J. A. Grant-Mackie, J. Hill, and B. J. Gill. 2011. Two Eocene chelonioid turtles from Northland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 54:181-194 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176841: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 05.03.2016

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Taxonomic list

• Thalassinoides-type burrows also reported to be present
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unclassified
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Plantae indet., Mollusca indet.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"carbonized wood fragments"
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Reptilia
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
Eochelone monstigris n. sp.
Eochelone monstigris n. sp. Grant-Mackie et al. 2011 sea turtle
V351A-V351AB type specimen