New Zealand is a country with hundreds of fossil sites. There are deposits from a range of periods. The easiest one to visit is on the North Island near Whanganui at Castlecliff. Here good Pleistocene shells can be found. A very good book: "Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand" was presented by A.G.Beu and P.A.Maxwell, drawings by R.C.Brazier, New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Lower Hutt, 1990. A lot of shells can be identified with this publication.
We collected in the Castlecliffian for several days and also gained a lot of species through te kind assistance of John Marston in Wellington.
Screen 1: Acanthochitonina, Dentaliida, Patelloidea, Fissurelloidea
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| Cryptoconchus marwicki (11 mm), colno 57221 | Dentalium nanum (28 mm), colno 57311 |
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| Acmaea suteri (3 mm), colno 35860 Omapu Shellbed |
Emarginula striatula (26 mm), colno 35879 |
| Next | On to the Pliocene of New Zealand | Back to general survey collections |