Also known as S55/f512; GS6177
Where: New Zealand (42.5° S, 173.5° E: paleocoordinates 64.7° S, 144.1° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Okarahia Sandstone Formation, Piripauan (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Okarahia Sandstone, which unconformably overlies Torlesse Supergroup, and is conformably overlain by the Tarapuhi Grit. AGE: Piripauan (=Coniacian-Santonian), on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed of unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by Collins & Wellman in 1954; reposited in the IGNS
Collection methods: surface (float),
• COLLECTOR: B.W. Collins, H.W. Wellman, 1954. REPOSITORY: GSNZ (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).
Primary reference: G. Warren and I. Speden. 1977. The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff District, South Marlborough. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 92:1-60 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 83514: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Crassostrea cf. dichotoma oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
Dimitobelus lindsayi belemnite |