S102/f4 - Kakahu River, Canterbury: Altonian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Amygdalum dolichum
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea australis
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis informal n. sp.
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Lentipecten hochstetteri Zittel 1864
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Monia sp. Gray 1850
spelled with current rank as Pododesmus (Monia)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia awamoaensis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Angulus (Peronidia) informal n. sp.
spelled with current rank as Tellina (Peronidia)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae
Gari oamarutica
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Dosinia aff. lambata
Kuia vellicata
Eumarcia pareoraensis
Notocallista (Fossacallista) tersa
original and current combination Fossacallista
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Globisinum miocenicum
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Austrofusus spinifer
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Baryspira robusta Marwick 1924
Gastropoda - Struthiolariidae
Struthiolaria subspinosa Marwick 1924
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Galeodea apodemetes
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Sigapatella sp. (Lesson 1830)
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand County:Geraldine
Coordinates: 44.2° South, 171.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.0° South, 178.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Altonian
Age range of interval:18.70000 - 15.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mount Brown
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: No lithostratigraphic data stated in text. Estimated to be from Mount Brown Formation based on correlation figure of King et al. (1994). AGE: Altonian age= Early Miocene; Awamoan (or Hutchinosnian) in text.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:concretionary,shelly/skeletal,green lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Greensand, hard concretionary matrix, crowded with bivalves. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, based on facies description.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: No environmental data provided in text. Shallow-marine (inner shelf) siliciclastic environment [Hendy].
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,concretion
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:IGNS
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Collected by Park (1885). REPOSITORY: Collection probably reposited in New Zealand Geological Survey (IGNS) collections, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda , bivalvia, and scaphopoda. Coral also listed. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated and from standard publication, though identified to species and subgeneric resolution. IDENTIFICATION: Identified by J. Marwick.
Metadata
Also known as:Collection #3047 (Hendy PhD); GS #577
Database number:67821
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-12-12 12:56:58 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2006-12-12 12:56:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
14008. H. W. Wellman. 1953. The Geology of the Geraldine Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey bulletin 50 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

18682 A.J.W. Hendy. 2006. The Neogene evolutionary history of New Zealand Mollusca: diversity trends, paleobiogeography, and evolutionary paleoecology. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]