S102/f512 - Kakahu River, Canterbury (Miocene of New Zealand)

Also known as Collection #3052 (Hendy PhD); GS #3236

Where: New Zealand (44.2° S, 171.1° E: paleocoordinates 49.6° S, 176.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mount Brown Formation, Otaian (21.7 - 19.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: No lithostratigraphic data stated in text, other than being derived from glauconitic sandstone with conglomerate, about 900 ft above the limestone. Estimated to be from Waikari Formation based on correlation figure of King et al. (1994). AGE: Altonian age= Early Miocene; Awamoan in text.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, glauconitic, conglomeratic sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: No environmental data provided in text. Shallow-marine (inner shelf) siliciclastic environment [Hendy].
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Soft glauconitic sandstone with conglomerate and bands of glauconitic sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, based on facies description (moderately soft = with difficulty crushed by hand).

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Collected by Wellman (1944). REPOSITORY: Collection probably reposited in New Zealand Geological Survey (IGNS) collections, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: H. W. Wellman. 1953. The Geology of the Geraldine Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey bulletin 50 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67827: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.12.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda , bivalvia, and scaphopoda. Coral also listed. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated and from standard publication, though identified to species and subgeneric resolution. IDENTIFICATION: Identified by J. Marwick.
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis cf. zitteli Ihering 1907 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Lentipecten hochstetteri Zittel 1864 scallop
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia trigonopsis Hutton 1873 jingle
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Notocorbula humerosa Hutton 1885 clam
 Cardiida - Psammobiidae
Gari "n. sp." Schumacher 1817 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Atamarcia aff. sulcifera Marwick 1927 venus clam
Marama (Hina) ovata Marwick 1927 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Scalpomactra "n. sp." Finlay 1928 clam
Zenatia "n. sp." Gray 1853 clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Struthiolariidae
Struthiolaria subspinosa Marwick 1924 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Xenophora prognata carrier shell
 Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Baryspira robusta Marwick 1924 snail
 Neogastropoda - Pseudomelatomidae
 Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Zemacies "n. sp." Finlay 1926 snail
 Neogastropoda - Raphitomidae
 Neogastropoda - Columbariidae
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Hima soicalis" = Nassarius (Hima)
"Hima soicalis" = Nassarius (Hima) snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Verconella "n. sp." Iredale 1914 true whelk
"Verconella cf. marwicki" = Penion marwicki Finlay 1930 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Maoricrypta wilckensi slipper shell
Sigapatella sp. Lesson 1830 slipper shell
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae