S180/f504 (Paleocene of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 3818

Where: Southland, New Zealand (46.2° S, 169.9° E: paleocoordinates 58.5° S, 160.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wangaloa Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Reported as Waipawan local stage = basal Ypresian. More recent literature (Stilwell, 1993; Cooper et al., 2004) suggests a Early Teurian stage = Danian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous, pebbly conglomerate and sandstone

• Paleoenvironmental data not reported.
• No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be from same facies as the other collections. Marine, ferruginous quartz pebble conglomerate and sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by C.A. Fleming. Collections are likely to be reposited in IGNZ (New Zealand Geological Survey) collections.

Primary reference: H. J. Harrington. 1958. Geology of Kaitangata Coalfield. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 59 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50217: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Probably identified by C.A. Fleming or J. Marwick. Nomenclature revised by A, Hendy (2005) - PhD thesis
unclassified
  -
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Laevidentaliidae
Laevidentalium sp. Cossmann 1888 tusk shell
Gastropoda
 Opisthobranchia -
Priscaphander sp. Finlay & Marwick 1937 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Zeacolpus (Zeacolpus) sp. Finlay 1926 turret shell
Listed as "Zecolpus n. sp. (not semiconcavus)"
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Cirsotrema (Cirsotrema) sp. Mörch 1852 wentletrap
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida -
"Nuculanacea indet." = Nuculanoidea
"Nuculanacea indet." = Nuculanoidea Adams and Adams 1858 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Talochlamys sp. Iredale 1929 scallop
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea (Cucullona) sp. Finlay and Marwick 1937 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
Pleuromeris sp. Conrad 1867 clam