Maungataniwha f508 (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 8205

Where: New Zealand (38.8° S, 179.8° E: paleocoordinates 65.0° S, 167.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piripauan (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• ?Piripauan

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; medium-grained, coarse, gray, calcareous, carbonaceous sandstone and shelly/skeletal packstone

• coarse and medium sand, moderately soft and moderately calcareous, carbonaceous, medium grey with weathered shellbeds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. A. Speden. 1973. Distribution, stratigraphy and stratigraphic relationships of Cretaceous sediments, western Raukumara Peninsula, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 16(2):243-268 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37330: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 11.03.2004

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Diapsida -
Diapsida indet. diapsid
"Sauria bone"
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Cinulia sp. Gray 1847 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula cf. woodsi Suter 1921 file clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus cf. pacificus Anderson and Hanna 1935 clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites cf. rectus Marshall 1926 ammonite