Also known as S56/f502; GS6158
Where: New Zealand (42.6° S, 173.5° E: paleocoordinates 64.7° S, 144.1° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Okarahia Sandstone Formation, Piripauan (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Okarahia Sandstone, which unconformably overlies Torlesse Supergroup, and is conformably overlain by the Tarapuhi Grit. AGE: Piripauan (=Coniacian-Santonian), on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: 15 m - 30 m below base Amuri Limestone.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, carbonaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by Schofield & Wood in 1951; reposited in the IGNS
Collection methods: surface (float),
• COLLECTOR: J.C. Schofield, B.L. Wood, 1951. REPOSITORY: GSNZ (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).
Primary reference: G. Warren and I. Speden. 1977. The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff District, South Marlborough. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 92:1-60 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 83518: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
? Tudiclana alta snail | |
Procancellaria parkiana periwinkle | |
Bivalvia | |
? Inoceramus pacificus Anderson and Hanna 1935 clam | |
Eriphyla meridiana clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium morganianum tusk shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Dimitobelus lindasyi belemnite | |
Sedentaria | |