CH/f63a Tutuiri Stream, Chatham Island (Paleocene to of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (43.8° S, 176.7° W: paleocoordinates 56.0° S, 145.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tutuiri Greensand Formation, Teurian to Teurian (66.0 - 53.0 Ma)

• 60-53 Ma, Teurian-Waipawan

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; glauconitic sandstone

• well bedded, pale yellow-green to grey-green, soft, friable, moderately sorted, glauconitic quartzofeldspathic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Kelly and J. S. Buckeridge. 2005. An Early Paleogene sponge fauna, Chatham Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 39:899-914 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110069: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.05.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Euryplegmatidae
Euryplegma auriculare
 Hexactinosa - Farreidae
Farrea occa
Farrea occa Bowerbank 1862 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Tretodictyidae
Tretodictyidae indet., Fieldingia sp., Sclerothamnopsis compressa, Psilocalyx wilsoni
Tretodictyidae indet. Schulze 1887 glass sponge
Anomochone or Cyrtaulon
Fieldingia sp. Kent 1870 glass sponge
Psilocalyx wilsoni glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Eurete simplissima, Pararete farreopsis, Chonelasma lamella, Heterorete sp.
Eurete simplissima glass sponge
Pararete farreopsis glass sponge
Chonelasma lamella glass sponge
Heterorete sp. Dendy 1916 glass sponge
 Lyssacinosa - Euplectellidae
Walteria leuckarti
Walteria leuckarti glass sponge
Demospongiae
 Lithistida -
Callipelta punctata, Homophymia stipitata
 Lithistida - Scleritodermidae
Scleritodermidae indet.
Scleritodermidae indet. Sollas 1888 demosponge
Aciculites or Microscleroderma or Scleritoderma
 Lithistida - Phymatellidae
Phymatellidae indet.
Phymatellidae indet. Schrammen 1910 demosponge
Neosiphonia or Reidispongia or Neoaulaxinia
 Megalithistida - Carterellidae
Costifer wilsoni
Costifer wilsoni demosponge
 Megalithistida - Pleromatidae
Pleroma aotea
Pleroma aotea Kelly 2003 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Corallistidae
Corallistes sp.
Corallistes sp. demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Theonellidae
Discodermia sp.
Discodermia sp. du Bocage 1869 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Macandrewiidae
Macandrewia spinifoliata
 Ancorinida - Ancorinidae
Stelletta sp., Penares micraster, Penares palmatoclada, Penares sp.
Stelletta sp. Schmidt 1862 demosponge
Penares micraster demosponge
Penares sp. Gray 1867 demosponge
n. sp. cf. P. palmatoclada