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)
• 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 78371: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonoidea indet. Zittel 1884 ammonite | |
Gaudryceras sp. de Grossouvre 1894 ammonite | |
Dimitobelus lindsayi belemnite | |
Gastropoda | |
Procancellaria parkiana periwinkle | |
? Tudiclana alta snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium morganianum tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria pointed nut clam | |
Anthonya elongata clam | |
Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam | |
Callista (Tikia) wilckensi venus clam | |
Pacitrigonia aff. hanetiana d'Orbigny 1842 clam | |
Inoceramus australis clam
Inoceramus pacificus Anderson and Hanna 1935 clam | |
Entolium aff. membranaceum Nilsson 1827 scallop | |
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten)
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten) scallop | |
Limatula woodsi Suter 1921 file clam | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Cucullaea (Cucullastis) zealandica Woods 1917 clam | |
Sedentaria | |