S136/f498 - Rifle Butts Fm, Target Gully (Miocene of New Zealand)

Also known as GS951; Coll# 3083 (Hendy PhD)

Where: New Zealand (45.1° S, 170.9° E: paleocoordinates 49.9° S, 178.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Rifle Butts Formation (Kaierero Group), Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Rifle Butts Fm, which gradationally overlies the Gee Greensand of the Kaierero Group, and is overlain by the Kurow Group. AGE: Hutchisonian-Awamoan in text of Gage (1957); late Altonian = Burdigalian-earliest Langhian; hereby assigned to the Altonian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Lower part of the formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, shelly/skeletal, gray, green sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, siliciclastic. Increasingly rapid accumulation of sediment in deepening water.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine, glauconitic, greenish-grey sandstone containing brachiopods and molluscs grading up to a fine silt or mudstone. Concretionary bands and layers of tabular concretions indicate bedding in otherwise unstratified sediment. Fossils are disseminated through the silt, and also entombed in concretions and concentrated in shell-limestone lenses. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, largely assumed, as no indication is given text of lithification state, except that concretionary layers are contrasted with the background lithology.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Collected by Park (1915-1916). REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).

Primary reference: M. Gage. 1957. The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 55 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67897: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.12.2006, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, gastropoda, and polyplacophora. IDENTIFIER: Identifications compiled from previously published accounts and reassessments of NZGS collections, by various paleontologists. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated but identified by specialist and often to subgeneric and species resolution.
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Skeneidae
? Notosetia sp. Iredale 1915 snail
"Crosseola proerrata" = Crossea (Crosseola) snail
"Crosseola sultan" = Crossea (Crosseola) snail
 Trochoidea - Solariellidae
Conominolia "n. sp." Finlay 1926 snail
 Trochoidea - Colloniidae
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Thoristella fossilis, "Fautor temporemutatus" = Calliostoma (Fautor)
"Fautor temporemutatus" = Calliostoma (Fautor) top snail
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
 Lepetellida - Scissurellidae
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Cirsotrema "n. sp." Mörch 1852 wentletrap
 Vanikoroidea - Eulimidae
Melanella sp. Bowdich 1822 snail
 Vanikoroidea - Aclididae
"Eusetia fricta" = Austrorissopsis fricta
"Eusetia fricta" = Austrorissopsis fricta Finlay 1930 snail
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Maoricrypta radiata slipper shell
Sigapatella maccoyi slipper shell
Sigapatella inflata slipper shell
Zegalerus sp. Finlay 1927 slipper shell
 Cerithioidea - Siliquariidae
"? Agathirses sp." = Tenagodus (Agathirses)
"? Agathirses sp." = Tenagodus (Agathirses) Montfort 1808 snail
 Cerithioidea - Planaxidae
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Pareora striolata Hutton 1885 turret shell
Vermicularia ophiodes turret shell
Maoricolpus "n. sp." Finlay 1926 turret shell
Zeacolpus "n. sp." Finlay 1926 turret shell
Zeacolpus abscisa turret shell
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra eusulcata mitre shell
 Neogastropoda -
 Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
"Baryspira (Alocospira) subhebera" = Amalda (Baryspira), "Baryspira (Alocospira) hebera" = Amalda (Baryspira), Baryspira aff. robusta
"Baryspira (Alocospira) subhebera" = Amalda (Baryspira) snail
"Baryspira (Alocospira) hebera" = Amalda (Baryspira) snail
Baryspira aff. robusta Marwick 1924 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
"Zeapollia acuticingulata" = Cantharus (Zeapollia), "Verconella marwicki" = Penion marwicki, Zelandiella subnodosa, "Eucominia intermedia" = Cominella (Eucominia), "Cominula (Procominia) pukeuriensis" = Cominella (Cominula), "Neocola aff. alpha" = Austrofusus (Neocola)
"Zeapollia acuticingulata" = Cantharus (Zeapollia) true whelk
"Verconella marwicki" = Penion marwicki Finlay 1930 true whelk
"Eucominia intermedia" = Cominella (Eucominia) true whelk
"Cominula (Procominia) pukeuriensis" = Cominella (Cominula) true whelk
"Neocola aff. alpha" = Austrofusus (Neocola) true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Buccinulidae
"Austrofusus spiniferus" = Aethocola (Aethocola) spinifera Finlay and McDowall 1923 snail
 Neogastropoda - Siphonaliidae
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Hima (Mirua) socialis" = Nassarius (Hima)
"Hima (Mirua) socialis" = Nassarius (Hima) snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
"Conospirus huttoni" = Conilithes
"Conospirus huttoni" = Conilithes cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Pseudomelatomidae
 Neogastropoda - Clathurellidae
 Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
 Neogastropoda - Raphitomidae
 Neogastropoda - Horaiclavidae
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Zeacuminia orycta auger snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Tomopleura transenna turrid
MISSPELLING: "Tomapleura"
 Neogastropoda - Mitromorphidae
"Mitrithara brachyspira" = Mitromorpha snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutomitridae
Waimatea othoniana, "Parvimitra scopi" = Peculator (Parvimitra), "Parvimitra pukeuriensis" = Peculator (Parvimitra), Proximitra rutidoloma
"Parvimitra scopi" = Peculator (Parvimitra) snail
"Parvimitra pukeuriensis" = Peculator (Parvimitra) snail
 Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
 Neogastropoda - Columbariidae
 Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Marshallena anomala ribbed mitre
Marshallena sp. Allan 1926 ribbed mitre
? Vexitomina sp. Powell 1942 ribbed mitre
Uromitra etremoides ribbed mitre
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
"Marginella (Glabella) fraudulenta" = Glabella, Marginella harrisi
"Marginella (Glabella) fraudulenta" = Glabella margin shell
Marginella harrisi margin shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
"Typhis (Typhinellus) hebetatus" = Typhinellus, "Pteronotus (Pterochelus) awamoanus" = Pterotyphis (Prototyphis) awamoanus, Murexsul scobina, Murexsul proavitus, "Xymenella lepida" = Xymene, "Xymenella "n. sp."" = Xymene, Vesanula chaskanon, Poirieria primigena
"Typhis (Typhinellus) hebetatus" = Typhinellus murex snail
"Pteronotus (Pterochelus) awamoanus" = Pterotyphis (Prototyphis) awamoanus Finlay 1930 murex snail
Murexsul scobina murex snail
Murexsul proavitus murex snail
"Xymenella lepida" = Xymene murex snail
"Xymenella "n. sp."" = Xymene murex snail
Vesanula chaskanon murex snail
Poirieria primigena murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Alcithoe compressa, Alcithoe cylindrica, Alcithoe (Leporemax) finlayi, Alcithoe (Leporemax) neglecta, Alcithoe (Leporemax) lepida, Alcithoe (Leporemax) scopi, "Waihaoia (Pachymelon) amoriaformis" = Alcithoe (Waihaoia), "Waihaoia (Pachymelon) murdochi" = Alcithoe (Waihaoia), "Waihaoia (Pachymelon) firma" = Alcithoe (Waihaoia), "Waihaoia (Teremelon) cognata" = Alcithoe (Waihaoia), Metamelon reverta
"Waihaoia (Pachymelon) amoriaformis" = Alcithoe (Waihaoia) volute
"Waihaoia (Pachymelon) murdochi" = Alcithoe (Waihaoia) volute
"Waihaoia (Pachymelon) firma" = Alcithoe (Waihaoia) volute
"Waihaoia (Teremelon) cognata" = Alcithoe (Waihaoia) volute
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Ficidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Cymatiella octoserrata, "Proxicharonia neozelanica" = Sassia, "Austrosassia maoria" = Sassia
"Proxicharonia neozelanica" = Sassia triton shell
"Austrosassia maoria" = Sassia triton shell
INCLUDES: A. maoria maoria and A. maoria insignita
 Sorbeoconcha - Eratoidae
"Proterato (Cypraerrato) senectus" = Lachryma senectus, "Proterato neozelandica" = Proterato neozelanica, "Proterato (Cypraerrato) submorosa" = Lachryma (Proterato) submorosa
"Proterato (Cypraerrato) senectus" = Lachryma senectus Murdoch 1924 snail
"Proterato neozelandica" = Proterato neozelanica Murdoch 1924 snail
"Proterato (Cypraerrato) submorosa" = Lachryma (Proterato) submorosa Laws 1935 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Polinices huttoni moon snail
Polinices incertus moon snail
"Polinella modesta" = Polinices (Polinella) moon snail
Tanea socia moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Haurakia oamarutica, "Nobolira polyvincta" = Attenuata
"Nobolira polyvincta" = Attenuata snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Newtoniellidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Cerithiopsidae
Zaclys "n. sp." Finlay 1927 snail
Notoseila sp. Finlay 1926 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Triphoridae
"Notosinister sp." = Monophorus
"Notosinister sp." = Monophorus Grillo 1877 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Vitrinellidae
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringicula sp. Deshayes 1838 snail
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Turbonilla sp. Risso 1826 snail
"Mormula locuples" = Turbonilla (Mormula) snail
"Syrnola "n. sp."" = Syrnola Adams 1860 snail
"Finlayola aff. angulifera" = Syrnola snail
Odostomia biangulata Laws 1939 snail
Odostomia obstinata Laws 1939 snail
Gumina "n. sp." Finlay 1928 snail
Chemnitzia sp. d'Orbigny 1840 snail
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica "n. sp. A" Röding 1798 sundial
Architectonica "n. sp. B" Röding 1798 sundial
 Heterostrophia -
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
 Opisthobranchia - Retusidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Arcida - Philobryidae
"Hochstetteria awamoana" = Philobrya (Hochstetteria)
"Hochstetteria awamoana" = Philobrya (Hochstetteria) clam
 Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis zitteli Ihering 1907 clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia trigonopsis Hutton 1873 jingle
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima colorata Hutton 1873 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Lentipecten hochstetteri Zittel 1864 scallop
Serripecten hutchinsoni Hutton 1873 scallop
"Pallium (Mesopeplum) aff. burnetti" = Decatopecten scallop
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Thraciida - Cleidothaeridae
 Thraciida - Myochamidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Notocorbula pumila" = Corbula (Notocorbula), "Notocorbula cf. kaiparaensis" = Corbula (Notocorbula), Notocorbula humerosa
"Notocorbula pumila" = Corbula (Notocorbula) clam
"Notocorbula cf. kaiparaensis" = Corbula (Notocorbula) clam
Notocorbula humerosa Hutton 1885 clam
 Cardiida - Neoleptonidae
"Notolepton aff. citrinum" = Neolepton
"Notolepton aff. citrinum" = Neolepton clam
 Cardiida - Montacutidae
aff. Virmysella sp. Iredale 1930 clam
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama huttoni Hector 1886 jewel box
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Notocallista (Fossacallista) parki" = Fossacallista venus clam
"Notocallista (Fossacallista) tersa" = Fossacallista venus clam
Bassina speighti venus clam
Eumarcia (Atamarcia) curta Hutton 1873 venus clam
Eumarcia (Atamarcia) sulcifera Marwick 1927 venus clam
Tawera marshalli venus clam
Turia pukeuriensis venus clam
"Dosinula suboblonga" = Dosina suboblonga Marwick 1927 venus clam
Dosinia (Raina) bensoni Marwick 1927 venus clam
Kuia vellicata venus clam
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
"Zemysia aff. globus" = Diplodonta
"Zemysia aff. globus" = Diplodonta clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Varicardium cf. patulum" = Nemocardium patulum, Hedecardium cf. greyi
"Varicardium cf. patulum" = Nemocardium patulum Hutton 1873 cockle
Hedecardium cf. greyi Hutton 1873 cockle
 Cardiida - Solecurtidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Angulus (Peronidia) tumens" = Tellina (Peronidia), Macoma "n. sp.", Macoma sp.
"Angulus (Peronidia) tumens" = Tellina (Peronidia) tellin clam
Macoma "n. sp." Leach 1819 tellin clam
Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Psammobiidae
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
"Panope worthingtoni" = Panopea, Hiatella aff. australis
"Panope worthingtoni" = Panopea clam
Hiatella aff. australis Lamarck 1818 clam
 Carditida - Condylocardiidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
Pleuromeris prolutea Marwick 1929 clam
"Venericardia perscrupulosa" = Purpurocardia perscrupulosa Marwick 1932 clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Spissatella trailli, "Spissatella scopalveus" = Eucrassatella scopalveus, "Eucrassatella attenuata" = Eucrassatella ampla
Spissatella trailli Hutton 1873 clam
"Spissatella scopalveus" = Eucrassatella scopalveus Finlay 1926 clam
INCLUDES: S. scopalveus scopalveus and S. scopalveus concisa
"Eucrassatella attenuata" = Eucrassatella ampla Zittel 1863 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula aff. tersior Marwick 1929 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Saccella) semiteres" = Saccella semiteres, Nuculana (Jupiteria) leachi
"Nuculana (Saccella) semiteres" = Saccella semiteres Hutton 1877 pointed nut clam
Nuculana (Jupiteria) leachi Marwick 1931 pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium (Fissidentalium) solidum Hutton 1873 tusk shell
"Dentalium mantelli" = Fissidentalium mantelli Zittel 1865 tusk shell
Osteichthyes
  -
Actinopteri
 Gadiformes - Macrouridae
Macrurus toulai1 Schubert 1906 grenadiers
 Ophidiiformes - Ophidiidae
Ophidiidarum elongatus n. sp.1 Frost 1924
 Spariformes - Sparidae
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Scopelus cirucularis n. sp.1 lanternfish
Scopelus sulcatus1 Bassoli 1906 lanternfish
 Anguilliformes - Congridae
"Ophidium pantanelli" = Rhynchoconger pantanelli1
"Ophidium pantanelli" = Rhynchoconger pantanelli1 Bassoli 1906 conger eel