Huia Stream, Waitakere Ranges, N41/f540 (Miocene of New Zealand)
Where: Auckland, New Zealand (37.0° S, 174.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° S, 177.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)
• Lower Altonian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone
• mass flow from near the top and down the sides of a slope
• rounded to subangular, fine pebble and granule volcorudite interbedded with volcarenites and volcolutites
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. W. Hayward. 1977. Lower Miocene corals from the Waitakere Ranges, North Auckland, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 7(1):99-111 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85530: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2009