Also known as GS5678
Where: New Zealand (45.0° S, 170.7° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 46.5° S, 160.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gardiner Greensand Member (Tapui Glauconitic Sandstone Formation), Bortonian (42.6 - 39.1 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Incholme Glauconitic Sand Mbr of the Tapui Glauconitic Sand Fm, immediately overlying the Kauru Fm (Teurian), and overlain locally by Raki Siltstone (Kaiatan). AGE: Bortonian of Gage (1957) = late Lutetian-Bartonian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower member within the formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, micaceous, calcareous, carbonaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, concretion
Reposited in the IGNS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: Collected by various authors, which may include: Marwick (1924-1944), Laws (1930-1941), and Powell (1942). REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).
Primary reference: M. Gage. 1957. The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 55 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64737: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Spirocolpus sp. Finlay 1926 turret shell | |
? Falsicolus sp. Finlay 1930 snail | |
Tanea cf. praeconsors moon snail | |
? Priscaphander sp. Finlay & Marwick 1937 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"? Crassatellites sp." = Crassatella
"? Crassatellites sp." = Crassatella Lamarck 1799 clam | |
Pleuromeris "n. sp." Conrad 1867 clam | |
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Hedecardium cf. brunneri Hector 1886 cockle | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Laevidentalium) cf. multistrictum tusk shell |