Where: New Zealand (42.6° S, 173.5° E: paleocoordinates 64.7° S, 144.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Okarahia Sandstone Formation (Mata Group), Piripauan (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• lower part of the formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. Warren and I. Speden. 1978. The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff district, South Marlborough (S56). New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 92:1-60 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78364: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Lunatia sp. Gray 1847 moon snail | |
Procancellaria parkiana periwinkle | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria pointed nut clam | |
Limatula woodsi Suter 1921 file clam | |
Inoceramus pacificus Anderson and Hanna 1935 clam | |
Cucullaea (Cucullastis) zealandica Woods 1917 clam | |
"? Eximiothracia haasti" = Thracia
"? Eximiothracia haasti" = Thracia clam | |
Callista (Tikia) wilckensi venus clam | |
Eriphyla meridiana clam | |
Pacitrigonia aff. hanetiana, "Oistotrigonia sp." = Linotrigonia (Oistotrigonia)
Pacitrigonia aff. hanetiana d'Orbigny 1842 clam
"Oistotrigonia sp." = Linotrigonia (Oistotrigonia) Cox 1952 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium morganianum tusk shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Dimitobelus lindsayi belemnite | |
Sedentaria | |