S56/f28, 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)

• probably 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 78372: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
? Baculites rectus Marshall 1926 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Dimitobelidae
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Tudiclidae
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria pointed nut clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam
 Cardiida - Lahillidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten)
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten) scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula woodsi Suter 1921 file clam
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776