Kaipuke Siltstone/Anatori River mouth (Miocene of New Zealand)

Where: West Coast, New Zealand (40.7° S, 172.4° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° S, 176.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Kaipuke Siltstone Formation (Westhaven Group), Otaian (21.7 - 19.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, glauconitic, gray, green, sandy, calcareous siltstone

• mid-shelf environment of near-oceanic salinity
• Pale greenish-grey, calcareous,sandy, and generally glauconitic siltstone; contains numerous fossils, notably Bryozoa, concentrated in ragged calcareous bands; the entire unit is homogeneous throughout the section and is considerably bioturbated, with limonitic borings and nodules common.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by I. G. Stuart

Primary reference: D. P. Gordon, I. G. Stuart, and J. D. Collen. 1994. Bryozoan fauna of the Kaipuke Siltstone, northwest Nelson: a Miocene homologue of the modern Tasman Bay coralline bryozoan grounds. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 37(3):239-247 [L. Liow/F. Franeck]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172797: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 24.08.2015

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Taxonomic list

• non-bryozoan data not entered
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Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Arachnopusiidae
Arachnopusia unicornis
 Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
Celleporaria agglutinans
 Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
Smittoidea crepidula
 Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae
Hippoporina miocenica n. sp.
Hippoporina miocenica n. sp. Gordon et al. 1994
Holotype: Specimen H-598
 Cheilostomata - Hippoporinidae
Hippomenella vellicata
 Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
Phidoloporidae indet.
Phidoloporidae indet. Gabb and Horn 1862