Where: Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (29.2° S, 177.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Dayrell Formation (Herald Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• lower part of the formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; limestone and volcaniclastic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. J. Brook. 1998. Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pleistocene submarine volcanic-sedimentary sequences at the northern Kermadec Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28(2):235-257 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85100: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cirripedia | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Anthozoa | |
"Favia ? speciosa" = Dipsastraea speciosa, Cyphastrea serailia, Goniastrea australensis, "Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta, Favites flexuosa
"Favia ? speciosa" = Dipsastraea speciosa Dana 1846 stony coral
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral
Goniastrea australensis Milne Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta Dana 1846 stony coral
Favites flexuosa Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Florideophyceae | |
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816 |