KE/f71 Dayrell Island (Pleistocene of New Zealand)

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

• 30-40 m water depth
• in situ coral fauna within volcaniclastic-bioclastic gravelly coarse sandstone immediately above the conglomerate and algal hardgrounds

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

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Taxonomic list

Cirripedia
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"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
  - Corallinophycidae
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816