S56/f31, Haumuri Bluff, Conway Siltstone (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (42.6° S, 173.5° E: paleocoordinates 57.7° S, 149.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Conway Siltstone Formation (Mata Group), Haumurian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone

• low energy, probably deeper water
• grey massive moderately soft siltstone, with scattered large hard subspherical calcareous concretions, intensely burrowed, jarosite and gypsum common

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Warren and I. Speden. 1978. The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff district, South Marlborough (S56). New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 92:1-60 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78380: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
? Aequipecten sp.
? Aequipecten sp. Fischer 1886 scallop
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
"Glycymeris (Glycymerita) selwynensis" = Glycymerita
"Glycymeris (Glycymerita) selwynensis" = Glycymerita clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Perissoptera waiparaensis
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Bittiscala inaequicostata
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
? Gunnarites zelandicus
? Gunnarites zelandicus Marshall 1917 ammonite