Where: New Zealand (42.6° S, 173.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 61.6° S, 132.4° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Okarahia Sandstone Formation (Mata Group), Piripauan (86.1 - 83.6 Ma)
• probably 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 78370: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2008
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Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonoidea indet. Zittel 1884 ammonite | |
Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) haumuriensis Hector 1886 ammonite | |
Baculites rectus Marshall 1926 ammonite | |
Pseudoxybeloceras bistriatum ammonite | |
Dimitobelus lindsayi belemnite | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium morganianum tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
? Inoceramus pacificus Anderson and Hanna 1935 clam | |
Limatula woodsi Suter 1921 file clam | |
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten)
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten) scallop | |
Entolium aff. membranaceum Nilsson 1827 scallop | |
? Callista (Tikia) wilckensi venus clam | |
Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
? Calliostoma decapitata top snail | |
Eriptycha punamutica snail | |
? Fasciolaria sp. Lamarck 1799 tulip snail |