Also known as GS 1177
Where: Chatham Islands, New Zealand (43.8° S, 176.7° E: paleocoordinates 53.9° S, 155.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tumaio Limestone Formation (Tioriori Group), Waipawan (55.8 - 53.0 Ma)
• AGE: The Tumaio Limestone is assigned an early Waipawan local stage=Ypresian age based on biostratigraphy from combination of faunal groups.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collections reposited in Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (New Zealand Geological Survey) collections. Collected by J. Marwick (1924)
Primary reference: H. J. Campbell, P. B. Andrews, A. G. Beu, P. A. Maxwell, A. R. Edwards, M. G. Laird, N. deB Hornibrook, D. C. Mildenhall, W. A. Watters, J. S. Buckeridge, D. E. Lee, C. P. Strong, G. J. Wilson and B. W. Hayward. 1993. Cretaceous-Cenozoic geology and biostratigraphy of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Monograph 2:1-269 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51050: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Apatopygus sp. Hawkins 1920 sea urchin | |
Eucidaris ? sp. pencil urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Cirsotrema (Tioria) youngi wentletrap | |
Bivalvia | |
Eburneopecten imperfectus scallop
Serripecten tiorioriensis Marwick 1928 scallop | |
"Pycnodonte (Notostrea) tarda" = Notostrea
"Pycnodonte (Notostrea) tarda" = Notostrea oyster | |
"Crenostrea cannoni" = Pycnodonte (Crenostrea)
"Crenostrea cannoni" = Pycnodonte (Crenostrea) oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Campages chathamensis" = Tioriorithyris chathamensis, Terebratella finlayi
"Campages chathamensis" = Tioriorithyris chathamensis Allan 1932 | |
Terebratulina suessi Hutton 1873 |