N29/f94 - Leatham Valley, Marlborough: Heterian - Puaroan, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Psilotrigonia ? zealandica Fleming 1987
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 41.9° South, 173.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:79.7° South, 36.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic
10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 5-6
Key time interval: Heterian - Puaroan
Age range of interval: 164.3 - 145 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Heterian-Puaroan = Oxfordian-Tithonian
Lithology and environment
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology of lithification, not stated in text. Presumed to be lithified on the basis of age.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, not stated in text.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:IGNS
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: M.R. Johnston and J.S. Crampton. REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
Taxonomic list comments:COMPLETENESS: Limited, however exhaustive, to taxonomic group covered in monograph (Trigoniacea). NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and use of subgeneric and species names. IDENTIFICATION: All older collections re-identified by C.A. Fleming.
Metadata
Also known as:GS13477
Database number:63739
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-08-19 19:24:45 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-19 19:24:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18321. C. A. Fleming. 1987. New Zealand Mesozoic Bivalves of the Superfamily Trigoniacea. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 53 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]