ammonites
S102/f512 - Kakahu River, Canterbury (Miocene of New Zealand)

Also known as Collection #3052 (Hendy PhD); GS #3236

Where: New Zealand (44.2° S, 171.1° E: paleocoordinates 49.6° S, 176.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mount Brown Formation, Otaian (21.7 - 19.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: No lithostratigraphic data stated in text, other than being derived from glauconitic sandstone with conglomerate, about 900 ft above the limestone. Estimated to be from Waikari Formation based on correlation figure of King et al. (1994). AGE: Altonian age= Early Miocene; Awamoan in text.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, glauconitic, conglomeratic sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: No environmental data provided in text. Shallow-marine (inner shelf) siliciclastic environment [Hendy].
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Soft glauconitic sandstone with conglomerate and bands of glauconitic sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, based on facies description (moderately soft = with difficulty crushed by hand).

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Collected by 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 67827: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.12.2006

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