S56/f504, Haumuri Bluff, Okarahia Sandstone (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

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

• yellow-grey soft sandstone with two lensoid bands of grey very hard richly fossiliferous calcareous 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

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Lunatia sp. Gray 1847 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Littorinidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria pointed nut clam
 Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula woodsi Suter 1921 file clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus pacificus Anderson and Hanna 1935 clam
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
"? Eximiothracia haasti" = Thracia
"? Eximiothracia haasti" = Thracia clam
 Cardiida - Lahillidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Pacitrigonia aff. hanetiana d'Orbigny 1842 clam
"Oistotrigonia sp." = Linotrigonia (Oistotrigonia) Cox 1952 clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Dimitobelidae
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae