Also known as S56/f542; GS10393
Where: New Zealand (42.6° S, 173.5° E: paleocoordinates 64.7° S, 144.1° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Conway Siltstone Formation, Piripauan (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Conway Siltstone, which conformably overlies Tarapuhi Grit, and is conformably overlain by the Claverley Sandstone. AGE: Piripauan-Haumurian (=Coniacian-early Campanian), on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Loose boulders on beach.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by Simes et al in 1969; reposited in the IGNS
Collection methods: surface (float),
• COLLECTOR: J.E. Simes, I.G. Speden, G. Warren, 1969. 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 83536: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Linguloidea indet. Menke 1828 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Gunnarites zelandicus Marshall 1917 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"? Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria
"? Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria pointed nut clam | |
? Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam | |
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten)
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten) scallop | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
? Protodolium speighti Trechmann 1917 snail | |