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
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 95874: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.05.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Protozoa | |
Sponguridae indet. Haeckel 1862 radiolarian | |
Spongodiscidae indet. Haeckel 1862 radiolarian
Tholodiscus cf. ocellatus Ehrenberg 1874 radiolarian
Spongodiscus sp. Ehrenberg 1854 radiolarian
Spongotrochus sp. Haeckel 1860 radiolarian | |
Amphisphaera aotea radiolarian
Amphisphaera kina radiolarian | |
Lithomespilus coronatus radiolarian
Protoxiphotractus wilsoni radiolarian | |
? Lithelius ex gr. minor radiolarian | |
Actinomminae indet. Takahashi 1991 radiolarian | |
Amphipternis alamedaensis radiolarian | |
Myllocercion aff. echtus radiolarian
Theocapsomma erdnussa radiolarian | |
Cryptocarpium "sp. A" Sanfilippo and Riedel 1992 radiolarian | |
Phormostichoartus strongi radiolarian
Theocampe vanderhoofi radiolarian | |
Artostrobus pusillus radiolarian | |
Mita regina radiolarian
Archaeodictyomitra cf. lamellicostata radiolarian
Dictyomitra andersoni Campbell and Clark 1944 radiolarian | |
Eucyrtidiidae indet. Ehrenberg 1847 radiolarian |