Waihao Greensand
184 distinct taxa, from 303 fossil occurrences the Paleobiology Database records under this name, spanning 46–34 Mya.
Canterbury, South Island, South Canterbury · NZ
184 taxa · 303 fossils · 46–34 MyaMembers recorded: Tahu, upper, Lower Greensand, Lower Otaio Limonitic, Upper Otaio Limonitic.
Macrostrat places this rock in the Eyre Group, in the Haerenga Supergroup, and dates it 43–42 Ma. Macrostrat’s own record
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5 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
- Gemmula
- Caestocorbula
- Marshallaria
- Pseudanthias multicrenatus
- Rhynchoconger eocenicus
- Trachichthodes pulcher
- Zonobythites cornifer
- Cordieria
- Platycephalus parapercoides
- Pseudoportlandia tahuia
- Pycnodonte
- Saccella semiteres
- Ampheristus pentlandensis
- Austrofusus (Austrofusus)
- Cucullaea (Latiarca)
- Duplipecten
- Poirieria
- Scopelosaurus brevirostris
- Serripecten
- Serripecten marwicki
- Symphysanodon inamata
- Waitakia
- Zealosphargis terrypratchetti
- Amalda (Gracilispira)
- Anatoma
- Athleta necopinata
- Aulopus pristinus
- Bathyarca
- Bregmaceros antiquus
- Cochlespira
- Coluzea
- Comitas
- Conilithes
- Dibranchus geniculatus
- Eopleurotoma
- Exilia
- Falsicolus
- Fractolatirus
- Fusiaphera
- Fusimitra
The 40 most often recorded, of 184.
What else lived thenRank the rock of a period
Counts are of occurrence records, which measure the rock and the fieldwork together.