N87/f557 - Te Wera Sandstone, Koranga River: Albian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Nodosariata - Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Frondicularia sp. Defrance 1824
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Rotularia sp.
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Kingenidae
Kingena sp. Davidson 1852
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758
Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea
Ammonoidea indet. Zittel 1884
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (Jupiteria) sp. (Bellardi 1875)
original and current combination Jupiteria
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp. (Meek 1865)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Parvamussium sp. (Sacco 1897)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea cf. echinata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Aucellina cf. gryphaeoides (Sowerby 1836)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
? Eopecten sp. Douvillé 1897
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816
Gastropoda - Siphonariidae
Anisomyon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Cinulia sp. Gray 1847
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 38.4° South, 177.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:75.7° South, 170.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Te Wera Sandstone
Regional section:Te Wera Sandstone Regional bed:150 ft
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Te Wera Sandstone of the Taitai Series, overlies Torelsse supergroup along Maccoyella Ridge and is unconformably overlying by the the Koranga Sandstone. THICKNESS: From bed within formation that varies in thickness between 91-183 m (regionally). AGE: Urutawan of Wellman (1956) = Middle to Upper Albian based on presence in unit of Aucellina gryphaeoides (Day 1969, Day and Speden 1970). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 150 ft above base of formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly lithified conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Conglomerate breccia. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, based on facies description.
Environment:coastal indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, inner shelf paleoenvironment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:IGNS
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: I.G. Speden. REPOSITORY: GSNZ (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, and other invertebrate groups (cephalopoda, gastropoda, echinoidea, bryozoa, annelida listed). NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, and generally lacking species-level designations. Identified by specialist (Speden), and lack of species names reflects poor preservation and insufficient existing taxonomic knowledge.
Metadata
Also known as:GS9759
Database number:65666
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-24 06:56:50 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-24 06:56:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18879. I.G. Speden. 1975. Cretaceous stratigraphy of Raukumara Peninsula. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 91 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]