Pukekio, Chatham Island (Paleocene to of New Zealand)

Also known as New Zealand Fossil Record CH/f477

Where: Chatham Island, New Zealand (44.0° S, 176.7° E: paleocoordinates 54.2° S, 155.4° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Red Bluff Tuff Formation, Thanetian to Thanetian (59.2 - 47.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, graded, calcareous conglomerate and conglomerate

• a predominantly calcareous palagonite tuff of basaltic composition, with beds of lapillistone and tuff-breccia well-bedded, with cross bedding, graded bedding and water sorting.

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical,

• Only bryozoans

Primary reference: D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor. 1999. Latest Paleocene to earliest Eocene bryozoans from Chatham Island, New Zealand. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of London: Geology Series 55(1):1-45 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7221: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 19.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Aspidostomatidae
Aspidostoma litotes n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
Aspidostoma cinnabarina n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
Melychocella cynura n. gen. n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
 Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
Chondriovelum fossilis n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
Ogiva incompta n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
Inversaria gondwanae n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
? Onychocella sp. Jullien 1882
Onychocella ? lamellosa Gordon and Taylor 1999
 Cheilostomata - Microporidae
Caleschara sp. MacGillivray 1880
Micropora quadriporosa n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
 Cheilostomata - Arachnopusiidae
Arachnopusia gracilis n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
 Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
Chataimulosia primaeva n. gen. n. sp.
Chataimulosia primaeva n. gen. n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
 Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
Hippopleurifera australis n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
? Escharoides crassa n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
? Exochella gracilis n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
 Cheilostomata - Antroporidae
Akatopora chathamica n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
 Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
Flustrellaria australis n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
 Cheilostomata - Kleidionellidae
 Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
Smitticellaria morioriana n. gen. n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
Cellaria aff. depressa Maplestone 1900
Cellaria minus n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
Cellaria elementaria n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
Cellaria perexigua n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
 Ctenostomata - Immergentiidae
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Lichenoporidae
 Cyclostomata - Cinctiporidae
Cinctipora solomoni n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
? Attinopora sp. Boardman et al. 1992
 Cyclostomata - Stomatoporidae
 Cyclostomata - Oncousoeciidae
 Cyclostomata - Tubuliporidae
? Idmidronea sp. Canu and Bassler 1920
 Cyclostomata - Diastoporidae
Berenicea sp. Lamouroux 1821
 Cyclostomata - Cerioporidae
Ceriopora rekohuensis n. sp. Gordon and Taylor 1999
 Cyclostomata - Heteroporidae