Where: Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (29.3° 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)
• upper part of the formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; limestone
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 85102: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| Echinoidea | |
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Periglypta sp. Jukes-Browne 1914 venus clam | |
| Gymnolaemata | |
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Celleporina sp. Gray 1848 | |
| Sedentaria | |
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Serpulidae "indet. A" Rafinesque 1835 | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral | |
| Florideophyceae | |
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Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816 | |