Also known as GS 6968
Where: New Zealand (44.3° S, 176.0° W: paleocoordinates 60.7° S, 132.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kahuitara Tuff Formation (Pitt Island Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Pitt Island Group includes Kahuitara Tuff, Southern Volcanics, and an unamed Haumurian limestone. The Kahuitara Tuff rests unconformably upon the Tupuangi Formation and passes into the Southern Volcanics without disconformity. THICKNESS: Maximum thickness of 225 m. AGE: Haumurian. Other collections are from the early Haumurian, so to avoid orphaning the collection is placed into the Campanian (=early Haumurian)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, pebbly, volcaniclastic, sandy tuff
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown abbreviations (HMW, GWG, HRK) and M. Laird. REPOSITORY: Presumably reposited in the New Zealand Geological Survey collections (now GNS Science), Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Primary reference: H. J. Campbell, P. B. Andrews, A. G. Beu, P. A. Maxwell, A. R. Edwards, M. G. Laird, N. deB Hornibrook, D. C. Mildenhall, W. A. Watters, J. S. Buckeridge, D. E. Lee, C. P. Strong, G. J. Wilson and B. W. Hayward. 1993. Cretaceous-Cenozoic geology and biostratigraphy of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Monograph 2:1-269 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 63091: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.08.2006
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Taxonomic list
Dicotyledoneae | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pseudolimea woodsi" = Lima (Limatula) woodsi
"Pseudolimea woodsi" = Lima (Limatula) woodsi Suter 1921 file clam | |
? Spondylus sp., Eburneopecten sp., Camptonectes sp. n. sp., Aequipecten sp., "Mixtipecten cf. amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten)
? Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
Eburneopecten sp. Conrad 1865 scallop
Camptonectes sp. n. sp. Meek 1864 scallop
Aequipecten sp. Fischer 1886 scallop
"Mixtipecten cf. amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten) scallop | |
Bakevelliidae indet. King 1850 oyster | |
Isognomon rekohuensis Crampton 1988 oyster | |
Amphidonte conica Sowerby 1813 oyster
? Pycnodonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster | |
"Cucullaea cf. zealandica" = Cucullaea (Cucullastis) zealandica
"Cucullaea cf. zealandica" = Cucullaea (Cucullastis) zealandica Woods 1917 clam | |
Panopea malvernensis clam | |
? Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium cf. morganianum tusk shell | |
Sedentaria | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 |