Also known as GS 8207
Where: New Zealand (38.8° S, 179.8° E: paleocoordinates 58.2° S, 164.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Piripauan to Piripauan (85.8 - 66.0 Ma)
• Piripauan-Haumurian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; coarse-grained, concretionary, gray, calcareous sandstone and shelly/skeletal packstone
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 37332: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 11.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Anisomyon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 pulmonate | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Struthioptera sp. Finlay and Marwick 1937 snail | |
Turbo sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea lapillicola oyster | |
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam | |
? Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Callistina sp. Jukes-Browne 1908 venus clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium cf. morganianum tusk shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Dimitobelus sp. Whitehouse 1925 belemnite |