GS 3772 - Kauru Fm, Raupo Creek (Paleocene to of New Zealand)

Also known as S160/f639; Coll# 3000 (Hendy PhD)

Where: New Zealand (45.1° S, 170.7° E: paleocoordinates 56.9° S, 162.1° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kauru Formation (Fuchsia Group), Selandian to Selandian (61.6 - 56.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Kauru Fm, immediately overlying Kakanui Metamorphic Group (Paleozoic), and overlain locally by Tapui Glauconitic Sandstone (Bortonian). AGE: upper part of Wangaloan of Gage (1957) (disused according to Cooper et al. 2004) = ?late Teurian (current NZ stage usage) = Selandian-Thanetian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: 1 ft above schist.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Deposited with gentle currents within depths out of reach of strong wave action.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Concretionary sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Presumably lithified, based on concretionary nature.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Collected by various authors, which may include: Marwick (1924-1944), Laws (1930-1941), and Powell (1942). REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).

Primary reference: M. Gage. 1957. The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 55 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64697: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, gastropoda, and brachiopoda. IDENTIFIER: J.A. Marwick (NZGS). NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated but identified by specialist and often to subgeneric and species resolution.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
? Zeacolpus sp. Finlay 1926 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Tudiclidae
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Friginatica sp. Hedley 1916 moon snail
Polinices "n. sp. A" Monfort 1810 moon snail
Listed as "Figinatica aff n. sp. A of Finlay and Marwick"
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) cf. taioma" = Jupiteria, Nuculana "n. sp. A", Spineilo elongata
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) cf. taioma" = Jupiteria pointed nut clam
Nuculana "n. sp. A" Link 1807 pointed nut clam
Spineilo elongata pointed nut clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Aulacomya "n. sp." Mörch 1853 mussel
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Arcida - Limopsidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Pteromyrtea "n. sp." Finlay 1926 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula sp. Gardner 1926 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Nemocardium sp. Meek 1876 cockle
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericardia aff. fyfei" = Purpurocardia fyfei
"Venericardia aff. fyfei" = Purpurocardia fyfei Finlay and Marwick 1937 clam