Bolitho Mudstone, Inangahua Outlier, Reefton area, New Zealand (Devonian of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (42.1° S, 171.9° E: paleocoordinates 23.1° S, 178.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bolitho Mudstone Formation (Reefton Group), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• Reefton Group is not very well dated, as there are few correlatable fossils.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone and lime mudstone

• "Low energy offshore shelf with sporadic higher energy storm events."
• "120m. Massive, uniform mudstone; siltstone & micritic horizons. Thin, highly fossiliferous shell horizons."

Primary reference: M. A. Bradshaw. 1999. Lower Devonian bivalves from the Reefton Group, New Zealand. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 20:1-171 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40522: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 24.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
orthocones
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida -
"Bellerophontacea indet." = Bellerophontoidea
"Bellerophontacea indet." = Bellerophontoidea M'Coy 1851 snail
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodonta sp. Billings 1858 clam
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Pterinopecten sp. Hall 1883 scallop
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
Nargunella cf. nitida Talent 1963 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Notonucula talenti n. sp. nut clam
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Phestia hegani n. sp. clam
Phestia pluvia n. sp. clam
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Strophodonta huttoni" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Strophodonta huttoni" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
listed as "Stropheodonta"
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida -
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Spiriferida - Acrospiriferidae
 Terebratulida - Meganterididae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Hyolitha
  -
Hyolitha indet. Marek 1963
Tentaculita
 Cornulitida - Cornulitidae
Cornulites sp. Schlotheim 1820
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily