N18/f624 - S side Waimamaku River [Otaua Fm] (Miocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (35.6° S, 173.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° S, 175.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Otaua Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 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 gravelly coarse to fine 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 146597: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Oculina sp. Gray 1847 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella duplicarina pointed nut clam
Ledella pakurangiensis pointed nut clam
Jupiteria cf. provoluta pointed nut clam
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima colorata Hutton 1873 file clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Nemocardium sp. Meek 1876 cockle
Gastropoda
  -
"aff. Zeminolia sp." = Spectamen
"aff. Zeminolia sp." = Spectamen Iredale 1924 snail
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
? Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell
 Neogastropoda - Raphitomidae
? Puha sp. Marwick 1931 snail
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Hima sp." = Nassarius (Hima)
"Hima sp." = Nassarius (Hima) Leach 1852 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Zeacolpus sp. Finlay 1926 turret shell