Upper Otaio Limonitic Member, McCulloch's Bridge (Eocene of New Zealand)

Also known as UOLM

Where: Canterbury, New Zealand (44.8° S, 171.2° E: paleocoordinates 52.1° S, 169.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Otaio Limonitic Member (Waihao Greensand Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• From the Upper Otaio Limonitic member of the Waihao Greensand. Kaiatan in age (Late Eocene). Sediments, 3-4.5 m above cemented band.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified, glauconitic, green sandstone

• Offshore lower shelf to slope environments, 150-250 m based on autoecological analyses.
• Non-cemented, dingy-green to rusty brown glauconitic sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Material reposited in IGNS collections (NZ Geol. Surv.). Collected by P.A. Maxwell and others.

Primary reference: P. A. Maxwell. 1992. Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 65:1-280 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45038: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.09.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive. Including some type specimens.
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Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Bolma ? sp.
Bolma ? sp. Risso 1826 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea (? Latiarca) sp.