S102/f501 - Kakahu River, Canterbury (Eocene of New Zealand)

Also known as Collection #3040 (Hendy PhD); GS #3234

Where: New Zealand (44.2° S, 171.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 45.7° S, 161.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kaiatan (39.1 - 36.7 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: 250-350 ft below limestone (Weka Pass Limestone?). No lithostratigraphic data stated in text. AGE: Bortonian age=latest Lutetian-Bartonian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, micaceous, gray, green, calcareous sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: No environmental data provided in text. Shallow-marine (inner shelf) siliciclastic environment [Hendy].
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Soft, greenish-grey, glauconitic, slightly micaceous sand and calcareous fine sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Collected by H.W. Wellman (1944). REPOSITORY: Collection probably reposited in New Zealand Geological Survey (IGNS) collections, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: H. W. Wellman. 1953. The Geology of the Geraldine Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey bulletin 50 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67591: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda , bivalvia, and scaphopoda. Coral also listed. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated and from standard publication, though identified to species and subgeneric resolution. IDENTIFICATION: Identified by J. Marwick.
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Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea sp.
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp.
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Atrina sp.
Atrina sp. Gray 1842 oyster
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Spissatella "n. sp."
Spissatella "n. sp." Finlay 1926 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Hedecardium brunneri
Hedecardium brunneri Hector 1886 cockle
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
"Austrosassia sp." = Sassia
"Austrosassia sp." = Sassia Bellardi 1872 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Galeodea cf. geniculosa
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Falsicolus cf. solidus
 Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Cordieria aff. rudis
 Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
"Baryspira cf. morgani" = Amalda (Baryspira)
"Baryspira cf. morgani" = Amalda (Baryspira) snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Magnatica sp.
Magnatica sp. Marwick 1924 moon snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Zeacolpus sp., Spirocolpus cf. waihaoensis
Zeacolpus sp. Finlay 1926 turret shell
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium aff. solidum
Dentalium aff. solidum Hutton 1873 tusk shell