S56/f530, Haumuri Bluff, Okarahia Sandstone (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

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

• yellow-grey soft sandstone with two lensoid bands of grey very hard richly fossiliferous calcareous 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

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Pacitrigonia aff. hanetiana d'Orbigny 1842 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"? Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten)
"? Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten) scallop
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
? Modiolus cf. typicus Forbes 1846 mussel
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Dimitobelidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Littorinidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae