N18/f624 - S side Waimamaku River [Otaua Fm] (Miocene of New Zealand)
Where: New Zealand (35.6° S, 173.4° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 40.1° S, 179.7° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Otaua Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 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 gravelly coarse to fine 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 146597: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.06.2013
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Taxonomic list
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| unclassified | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Notocyathus (Paradeltocyathus) orientalis stony coral | |
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Oculina sp. Gray 1847 stony coral | |
| Malacostraca | |
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Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Terebratulidae indet. Gray 1840 | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Lima colorata Hutton 1873 file clam
Ctenoides aff. naufragus file clam | |
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Nemocardium sp. Meek 1876 cockle | |
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Ledella pakurangiensis pointed nut clam
Saccella duplicarina pointed nut clam
Jupiteria cf. provoluta pointed nut clam | |
| Gastropoda | |
"aff. Zeminolia sp." = Spectamen
"aff. Zeminolia sp." = Spectamen Iredale 1924 snail | |
"Hima sp." = Nassarius (Hima)
"Hima sp." = Nassarius (Hima) Leach 1852 snail | |
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? Puha sp. Marwick 1931 snail | |
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? Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell | |
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Zeacolpus sp. Finlay 1926 turret shell | |