Island Sandstone
30 distinct taxa, from 37 fossil occurrences the Paleobiology Database records under this name, spanning 43–35 Mya.
Westland · NZ
30 taxa · 37 fossils · 43–35 MyaMacrostrat places this rock in the Rapahoe Group, in the Haerenga Supergroup, and dates it 40–27 Ma. Macrostrat’s own record
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4 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
When
What has been found
- Lyreidus bennetti
- Bryozoa
- Cirsotrema
- Duplipecten
- Polychaeta
- Schizaster (Paraster) exoletus
- Aturia
- Carcinoplax temikoensis
- Cibicides
- Echinoidea
- Isocrinidae
- Laevidentalium
- Laeviranina pororariensis
- Leptomithrax griffini
- Limea
- Macropneustes
- Maeandricampus granuliferum
- Mesopeplum
- Naticidae
- Notocyathus
- Notomithrax allani
- Pinna
- Pororaria eocenica
- Raninoides
- Serripecten
- Spirocolpus
- Stethothyris
- Taimanawa prisca
- Temnopleuridae
- Terebratella
What else lived thenRank the rock of a period
Counts are of occurrence records, which measure the rock and the fieldwork together.