ammonites
S102/f513 - Waihi River, Canterbury (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Also known as Collection #3043 (Hendy PhD); GS #3237

Where: New Zealand (44.0° S, 171.1° E: paleocoordinates 50.2° S, 174.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tokama Siltstone Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Tokama Siltstone? No lithostratigraphic data stated in text. AGE: Waitakian = Chattian-earliest Aquitanian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, medium-grained, glauconitic, gray, green siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: No environmental data provided in text. Offshore-marine (mid-outer shelf) siliciclastic environment [Hendy].
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Moderately-soft, medium, green-grey, glauconitic siltstone with scattered fossils. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, assumed based on facies description (moderately soft).

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Collected by H.W. Wellman (1944). REPOSITORY: Collection probably reposited in New Zealand Geological Survey (IGNS) collections, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: H. W. Wellman. 1953. The Geology of the Geraldine Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey bulletin 50 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67595: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.11.2006

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