Where: New Zealand (42.6° S, 173.5° E: paleocoordinates 57.7° S, 149.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tarapuhi Grit Formation (Mata Group), Haumurian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; 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 78376: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta | |
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus matotorus clam | |
Ostrea lapillicola oyster | |
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten)
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten) scallop | |
Limatula woodsi Suter 1921 file clam | |
Entolium aff. membranaceum Nilsson 1827 scallop | |
? Callista (Tikia) wilckensi venus clam | |
"? Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria
"? Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria pointed nut clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Dimitobelus hectori" = Dimitobelus (Dimitocamax) hectori
"Dimitobelus hectori" = Dimitobelus (Dimitocamax) hectori Stevens 1965 belemnite | |
Gastropoda | |
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