Where: New Zealand (42.6° S, 173.4° E: paleocoordinates 64.7° S, 144.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Okarahia Sandstone Formation (Mata Group), Piripauan (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• group of beds-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 78400: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Dimitobelus lindsayi belemnite | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium morganianum tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea (Cucullastis) zealandica Woods 1917 clam | |
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Crassostrea cf. dichotoma oyster | |
? Aequipecten sp. Fischer 1886 scallop
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten) scallop
Camptonectes selwynensis scallop | |
? Ctenoides sp. Mörch 1853 file clam
Limatula woodsi Suter 1921 file clam | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Inoceramus australis clam
? Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Inoceramus pacificus Anderson and Hanna 1935 clam | |
"Pterotrigonia pseudocaudata" = Trigonia pseudocaudata, "Oistotrigonia sp." = Linotrigonia (Oistotrigonia)
"Pterotrigonia pseudocaudata" = Trigonia pseudocaudata Hector 1886 clam
"Oistotrigonia sp." = Linotrigonia (Oistotrigonia) Cox 1952 clam | |
? Eriphyla meridiana clam | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Callista (Tikia) wilckensi venus clam | |
Thyasira sp. Lamarck 1818 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Procancellaria parkiana periwinkle | |
Sedentaria | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Anthozoa | |
"Haimesiastraea anchistina" = Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis
"Haimesiastraea anchistina" = Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis Duncan 1865 stony coral | |
Oculina sp. Gray 1847 stony coral | |
Caryophylliidae indet. Gray 1847 stony coral | |
"Dasmosmilia spissa" = Palaeopsammia zitteli
"Dasmosmilia spissa" = Palaeopsammia zitteli Vaughan 1900 stony coral |