N18/f623 - S side Waimamaku River [Otaua Fm] (Miocene to of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (35.6° S, 173.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 175.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Otaua Formation, Otaian to Otaian (21.7 - 15.9 Ma)

• Awamoan age in text

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone and conglomerate

• alternating sandstone and conglomerate beds. The sandstones consist of well sorted, laminated, medium to coarse sands with rare rounded pebbles up to 10 cm. in diameter, and occasional interbedded granule conglomerate bands. The conglomerates are massive to poorly laminated sandy, granule, pebble and cobble gravels
• from laminated shelly medium to coarse sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: B. W. Hayward. 1972. Geology of the Kawerua coastline, North Auckland. Tane 18:149-168 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 146596: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
 Rotaliina - Cassidulinidae
Globocassidulina sp. Voloshinova 1960
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
 Spirillinina - Spirillinidae
Spirillina sp. Reuss 1862
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Globoquadrina dehiscens Chapman et al. 1934
Globigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Globigerinoidea - Globorotaliidae
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Robulus sp. Montfort 1808
Nodosaria sp. Lamarck 1812
Lagena sp. Walker and Boys 1784
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Miogypsinidae
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Laevidentaliidae
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
"Dentalium mantelli" = Fissidentalium mantelli
"Dentalium mantelli" = Fissidentalium mantelli Zittel 1865 tusk shell
Gastropoda
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
  -
"aff. Zeminolia sp." = Spectamen
"aff. Zeminolia sp." = Spectamen Iredale 1924 snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Awateria sp. Suter 1917 turrid
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Falsicolus sp. Finlay 1930 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Frignatica (Sulconacca) vaughani" = Friginatica
"Frignatica (Sulconacca) vaughani" = Friginatica moon snail
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin