Where: New Zealand (42.6° S, 173.5° E: paleocoordinates 64.7° S, 144.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Okarahia Sandstone Formation (Mata Group), Piripauan (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• probably lower part of the formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. Warren and I. Speden. 1978. The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff district, South Marlborough (S56). New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 92:1-60 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78367: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Sedentaria | |
Bivalvia | |
? Modiolus cf. typicus Forbes 1846 mussel | |
Crassostrea cf. dichotoma oyster | |
"? Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten)
"? Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten) scallop | |
Cucullaea (Cucullastis) zealandica Woods 1917 clam | |
Eriphyla meridiana clam | |
Callista (Tikia) wilckensi venus clam | |
Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam | |
Pacitrigonia aff. hanetiana d'Orbigny 1842 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Procancellaria parkiana periwinkle | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium morganianum tusk shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Dimitobelus lindsayi belemnite |