ammonites
KE/f63 Napier Island (Pleistocene of New Zealand)

Where: Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (29.2° S, 177.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 177.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Boat Cove Formation (Herald Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; volcaniclastic sandstone

• volcaniclastic gravelly sandstone and boulder conglomerate lens; transported corals

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. J. Brook. 1998. Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pleistocene submarine volcanic-sedimentary sequences at the northern Kermadec Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28(2):235-257 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85087: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.11.2008