S56/f542, Haumuri Bluff, Conway Siltstone (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

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

• low energy, probably deeper water
• grey massive moderately soft siltstone, with scattered large hard subspherical calcareous concretions, intensely burrowed, jarosite and gypsum common

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
 Lingulida -
Linguloidea indet. Menke 1828
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Gunnarites zelandicus Marshall 1917 ammonite
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"? Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria
"? Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria pointed nut clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten)
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten) scallop
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
? Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
 Neritoina - Neritopsidae
? Protodolium speighti Trechmann 1917 snail