P29/f269 Flaxbourne River (Paleocene of New Zealand)

Where: Marlborough, New Zealand (41.8° S, 174.2° E: paleocoordinates 57.4° S, 170.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• RP1 radiolarian zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified chert and lithified, cherty/siliceous mudstone

• cm-bedded dark siliceous mudstone alternating with dark grey porcellanite/chert

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: C. J. Hollis, B. D. Field, K. M. Rodgers and C. P. Strong. 2003. Stratigraphic, paleontological and geochemical data from Upper Cretaceous and Lower Paleocene strata in southeastern Marlborough, New Zealand. Science Report Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (9)1-64 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95867: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.05.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Radiolaria - Actinommidae
Actinomminae indet. Takahashi 1991 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtiidae
Lithostrobus wero radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
Eucyrtidiidae indet. Ehrenberg 1847 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Archaeodictyomitridae
Dictyomitra andersoni Campbell and Clark 1944 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Carpocaniidae
Carpocaniidae indet. Haeckel 1881 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Amphisphaera aotea radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Litheliidae
Litheliidae indet. Haeckel 1862 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Spongodiscidae
Spongotrochus sp. Haeckel 1860 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Stylosphaeridae