Where: Canterbury, New Zealand (44.5° S, 170.9° E: paleocoordinates 52.6° S, 165.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Otaio Gorge Sandstone Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Porangan local stage = middle to upper Luetatian stage.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; pebbly, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collection likely to be reposited in IGNS (New Zealand Geological Survey) collections.
Primary reference: H. S. Gair. 1958. The Tertiary geology of the Pareora District, South Canterbury. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 2:265-296 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50161: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Zeacolpus (Zeacolpus) sp. Finlay 1926 turret shell
Spirocolpus sp. n. sp. Finlay 1926 turret shell | |
Perissodonta sp., Monalaria sp. n. sp.
Perissodonta sp. Marten 1878 snail
Monalaria sp. n. sp. Marwick 1924 snail | |
Amalda (Baryspira) sp. Fischer 1883 snail | |
"Eoturris sp." = Eopleurotoma, Insolentia sp. n. sp.
"Eoturris sp." = Eopleurotoma Cossmann 1889 turrid
Insolentia sp. n. sp. Finlay 1926 turrid | |
Athleta sp. Conrad 1853 volute | |
Magnatica (Spelaenacca) sp. Finlay 1930 moon snail
Polinices (Polinella) sp. Marwick 1931 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Veneridae indet. Rafinesque 1815 venus clam
Costacallista hectori Finlay and Marwick 1937 venus clam | |
Oxyperas (Pseudoxyperas) sp. n. sp.
Oxyperas (Pseudoxyperas) sp. n. sp. clam | |
Hedecardium (Hedecardium) cf. brunneri Hector 1886 cockle | |
Glyptoactis (Fasiculicardia) sp. Stewart 1930 clam | |
Eucrassatella sp. Iredale 1924 clam |