ammonites
Waitemata Brewery Well - Otahuhu (Otahuhu Formation) (Pliocene of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 3528

Where: Auckland, New Zealand (36.9° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.1° S, 175.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Otahuhu Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Possibly correlated with Kaawa Formation (regional early Pliocene strata). Shellbed 84-98 ft below surface. Opoitian-Waipipian age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• Shallow water, inner shelf siliciclastic facies, possibly with estuarine influence.
• Shell bed.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Coutts (1945). Collections most likely reposited at GNS (NZ Geol. Surv.), Lower Hutt.

Primary reference: J. Marwick. 1948. Lower Pliocene Mollusca from Otahuhu, Auckland. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 16 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45259: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.10.2004

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