S102/f516 - Gapes Valley Rd, Canterbury: Otaian, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Raphitomidae
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Austrotoma minor
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Pseudomelatomidae
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Comitas fusiformis
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Austrofusus (Neocola) apudalpha
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Malletiidae
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Minormalletia simia
Marwick 1931
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Spissatella trailli
(Hutton 1873)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Marama ovata
Marwick 1927
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Lentipecten hochstetteri
Zittel 1864
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Cucullaeidae
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Cucullaea sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Geography
| Country: | New Zealand | County: | Geraldine |
| Coordinates: | 44.1° South, 171.1° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.5° South, 176.8° 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: | Otaian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 21.70000 - 18.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Waikari | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: No lithostratigraphic data stated in text, other than from greensand with conglomerate. Estimated to be from Waikari Formation based on correlation figure of King et al. (1994). AGE: Otaian age= Earliest Early Miocene; Otaian in text. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified silty,calcareous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Weathered soft, moderately calcareous, muddy sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, based on facies description (soft = easily crushed by hand). | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: No environmental data provided in text. Shallow-marine (inner shelf) siliciclastic environment [Hendy]. | |
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: Collected by Wellman (1944). 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 #3051 (Hendy PhD); GS #3239 | ||
| Database number: | 67826 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-12-12 13:26:59 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-12-12 13:26:59 |
| 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] |