N18/f623 - S side Waimamaku River [Otaua Fm] (Miocene to of New Zealand)
Where: New Zealand (35.6° S, 173.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 175.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Otaua Formation, Otaian to Otaian (21.7 - 15.9 Ma)
• Awamoan age in text
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone and conglomerate
• alternating sandstone and conglomerate beds. The sandstones consist of well sorted, laminated, medium to coarse sands with rare rounded pebbles up to 10 cm. in diameter, and occasional interbedded granule conglomerate bands. The conglomerates are massive to poorly laminated sandy, granule, pebble and cobble gravels
• from laminated shelly medium to coarse sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: B. W. Hayward. 1972. Geology of the Kawerua coastline, North Auckland. Tane 18:149-168 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 146596: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.06.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium mantelli" = Fissidentalium mantelli
"Dentalium mantelli" = Fissidentalium mantelli Zittel 1865 tusk shell | |
Laevidentalium pareorense tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
"aff. Zeminolia sp." = Spectamen
"aff. Zeminolia sp." = Spectamen Iredale 1924 snail | |
"Frignatica (Sulconacca) vaughani" = Friginatica
"Frignatica (Sulconacca) vaughani" = Friginatica moon snail | |
Awateria sp. Suter 1917 turrid | |
Falsicolus sp. Finlay 1930 snail | |
Vaginella torpedo snail | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Foraminifera | |
Spirillina sp. Reuss 1862 | |
Globothalamea | |
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Foraminifera | |
Globocassidulina sp. Voloshinova 1960 | |
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808 | |
Nodosariata | |
Foraminifera | |
Globigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Globigerinoides trilobus Reuss 1850
Globoquadrina dehiscens Chapman et al. 1934 |