Where: New Zealand (42.6° S, 173.5° E: paleocoordinates 57.7° S, 149.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Conway Siltstone Formation (Mata Group), Haumurian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone
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 78379: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Linguloidea indet. Menke 1828 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Gunnarites zelandicus Marshall 1917 ammonite | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"? Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria
"? Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria pointed nut clam | |
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten)
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten) scallop | |
? Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
? Protodolium speighti Trechmann 1917 snail |