ammonites
Locality R15/f8027, Kawhia (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (38.2° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 82.7° S, 53.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• Captain Kings Shellbed, Middle Heterian, Murihiku Supergroup

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• Jurassic rocks of the Murihiku Supergroup represent estuarine and marine continental shelf sites of deposition.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. N. Gardner and H. J. Campbell. 2002. Middle to Late Jurassic bivalves of the genera Neocrassina and Trigonopis from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics 45(3):323-347 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56290: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.11.2005, edited by Austin Hendy and Matthew Clapham