CH/f0652 - Tutuiri Creek [Takatika Grit] (Paleocene of New Zealand)

Where: Chatham Islands Territory, New Zealand (43.8° S, 176.7° W: paleocoordinates 56.8° S, 142.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Takatika Grit Formation (Tioriori Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• unit BQA (bioclastic-quartz arenite), upper part of the Takatika Grit, Lower Danian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• near-shore marine environment, influenced strongly by storm activity
• bioclastic-rich quartz arenite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. P. Consoli, A. Pisera, and J. D. Stilwell. 2009. Siliceous sponges of the Takatika Grit (Cretaceous-Paleogene), Chatham Islands, south Pacific. Journal of Paleontology 83(5):811-819 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110115: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Euretidae indet., Pararete sp., Eotretochone australis n. gen. n. sp.
Euretidae indet. Zittel 1877 glass sponge
Pararete sp. Ijima 1927 glass sponge
Eotretochone australis n. gen. n. sp. Consoli et al. 2009 glass sponge