AU10248 - Port Waikato, Auckland: Puaroan, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Myophorellidae
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Myophorella (Scaphogonia) purseri
Fleming 1987
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Geography
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Coordinates: | 37.4° South, 174.7° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 85.9° South, 63.0° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5-6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Puaroan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 150 - 145 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Upper Puaroan = Latest Tithonian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology or 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: A.P.W. Thomas, 1881. REPOSITORY: Presumably the University of Auckland, Auckland, 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
| Database number: | 63741 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-08-19 19:41:07 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-19 19:41:07 |
| 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] |