Also known as GS8391
Where: New Zealand (38.4° S, 177.3° E: paleocoordinates 75.7° S, 170.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Te Wera Sandstone Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Te Wera Sandstone of the Taitai Series, overlies Torelsse supergroup along Maccoyella Ridge and is unconformably overlying by the the Koranga Sandstone. THICKNESS: From bed within formation that varies in thickness between 91-183 m (regionally). AGE: Urutawan of Wellman (1956) = Middle to Upper Albian based on presence in unit of Aucellina gryphaeoides (Day 1969, Day and Speden 1970). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 150 ft above base of formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the IGNS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: I.G. Speden. REPOSITORY: GSNZ (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).
Primary reference: I.G. Speden. 1975. Cretaceous stratigraphy of Raukumara Peninsula. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 91 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 65665: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Sedentaria | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Kingena sp. Davidson 1852 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) sp." = Jupiteria
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) sp." = Jupiteria Bellardi 1875 pointed nut clam | |
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
Parvamussium sp. Sacco 1897 mud scallop | |
Aucellina cf. gryphaeoides Sowerby 1836 scallop | |
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell |