N62/f585 Te Piki, Cape Runaway: Castlecliffian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Rissoidae
Subonoba (Austronoba) obessa n. sp. Grant-Mackie and Chapman-Smith 1971
recombined as Onoba (Onoba) obessa
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
Neoguraleus (Fusiguraleus) plenecomptus Grant-Mackie and Chapman-Smith 1971
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Odostomia turneri
Polyplacophora - Neoloricata - Acanthochitonidae
Cryptoconchus mucronatus
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 37.5° South, 178.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.0° South, 178.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Castlecliffian
Age range of interval:1.63000 - 0.34000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Waipaoa Member:Te Piki
Local section:N62 Local bed:0.00-0.75 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,brown,gray poorly lithified sandy,calcareous mudstone
Lithology description: massive, richly fossiliferous, soft, brown-grey calcareous sandy mudstone
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:178191
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-04-24 13:49:56 Last modified:2016-04-24 13:49:56
Access level:the public Released:2016-04-24 13:49:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
58976. J. A. Grant-Mackie and M. Chapman-Smith. 1971. Paleontological notes on the Castlecliffian Te Piki Bed, with descriptions of new Molluscan taxa. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 14(4):655-704 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]