ammonites
R13/f6641 - Maretae Stream, Port Waikato (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as N51/641

Where: New Zealand (37.4° S, 174.7° E: paleocoordinates 85.9° S, 63.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Puaroan (148.5 - 145.5 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: 1 ft thick bed. Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Puaroan, Zone B = Late Tithonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown shale

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

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: B.R. Paterson, 1952. REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: B.H. Purser. 1961. Geology of the Port Waikato Region (Onewhero Sheet N51). New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 69 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63874: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.08.2006

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