ammonites
H46/f6491 - Cannbal Bay, Otago (Jurassic to of New Zealand)

Also known as GS21; S184/491

Where: New Zealand (46.5° S, 169.8° E: paleocoordinates 79.3° S, 38.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bathonian to Bathonian (167.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Upper Temaikan = Latest Bajocian-Callovian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marinelithified

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, not stated in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology of lithification, not stated in text. Presumed to be lithified on the basis of age.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: A. McKay, 1873. REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: G. R. Stevens. 1965. The Jurassic and Cretaceous Belemnites of New Zealand and a Review of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Belemnites of the Indo-Pacific Region. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 36 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63774: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.08.2006

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