Also known as S56/f504; GS6176

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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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, medium-grained, shelly/skeletal, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Collins & Wellman in 1954; reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: B.W. Collins, H.W. Wellman. 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 83516: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.08.2008

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