S56/f27, 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 78371: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus pacificus Anderson and Hanna 1935 clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula woodsi Suter 1921 file clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten)
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten) scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium aff. membranaceum Nilsson 1827 scallop
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Pacitrigonia aff. hanetiana d'Orbigny 1842 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria pointed nut clam
Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Littorinidae
 Neogastropoda - Tudiclidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Dimitobelidae
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet. Zittel 1884 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Gaudryceras sp. de Grossouvre 1894 ammonite