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- CHAPTERTrace Fossils from the Turbidite Facies of the Waitemata Group, Whangaparaoa Peninsula, Auckland
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 1.—Locality map of Whangaparaoa Peninsula.
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 2.—Diagrammatic representations of Scolicia. (a) Trail in which the arched transverse laminae are unbroken; (b) ...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 3.—Regularly ramifying plant-like tunnel systems of this kind typify the ichnogenus Chondrites. This form is ver...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 4.—Nereites. Diagrammatic reconstructions drawn from field sketches of fragmentary specimens and X16.
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 1.—Trace fossil identified as Scolicia viewed in transverse section. That the animal responsible had a burrowing...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 2.—Few examples of the meandering non-branching trace fossil Scolicia can be followed continuously over distance...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 3.—Scolicia displaying faint arched transverse laminae. (Grid reference N38/221912; diameter of coin c. 33mm.)
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 1.—Surface densely covered with Scolicia (here emphasised by selective weathering) is evidence of extensive rewo...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 2.—Example of Scolicia in which arched transverse laminae, broken by a longitudinal median gap, are conspicuous ...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 1.—Variant of Scolicia in which lobate offshoots are bilaterally arranged along a narrow structureless "stem" (X...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 2.—A further variant (?) of Scolicia (Xl2). Note the small fragmentary marking resembling Paleodictyon in lower ...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 1.—Planolites sp. a (Xl3). Specimen filled with structureless sediment darkercoloured and coarser-grained than t...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 2.—Planolites sp. b (Xl4). Small meandering and nondescript trails filled with powdery light-coloured silt.
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 3.—Markings of this kind (X15) are compared to Chondrites but differ considerably from more characteristic examp...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 1.—Anastomosing clusters of "flattened" (cylindrical) markings identified as Phycodes. Note faint impression of ...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 2.—Phycodes in a little more detail. (Diameter of coin 19mm.)
- ILLUSTRATIONFigs. 3 and 4.—These unusual honeycomb-like markings are identical with the ichnogenus Paleodictyon. Comparisons can ...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 1.—Limonitised cast of the trace fossil Radionereites ballancei (X24). Note the narrow "stem" and the lobate off...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 2.—Detailed view of a "stem" of Radionereites ballancei. —A. Estie, photograph.
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 1.—Vertical burrows ("Tigillites") in an interturbidite. They are filled with light-coloured sediment and termin...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 2.—Plugged vertical burrow (X20) which displays the tendency to pull away cleanly from coarser-grained enclosing...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 1.—Tight meanders of the trace fossil Helminthoida on a parting surface in a silty sandstone (X23). —A. Estie, p...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 2.—Helminthoida truncated by a later formed horizontal burrow of Cylindrites kind (X23). —A. Estie, photograph.
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 5.—Diagrammatic reconstruction of Cycloichnus waitemataensis showing the central structureless core (? dwelling ...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 6.—Biogenic structure comparable to Gyrophyllites, as seen on bedding surfaces (a) and viewed normal to bedding ...