S102/f512 - Kakahu River, Canterbury: Otaian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Maoricolpus cavershamensis
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Sigapatella sp. (Lesson 1830)
Maoricrypta wilckensi
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Tanea sublata
Polinices huttoni
Polinices (Polinella) lobata
Friginatica vaughani
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Hima soicalis
spelled with current rank as Nassarius (Hima)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Verconella cf. marwicki Finlay 1930
recombined as Penion marwicki
Verconella informal n. sp.
Austrofusus spinifer
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Bonellitia sp. Jousseaume 1887
Maorivetia brevirostris
Inglisella aff. ampla
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Raphitomidae
Austrotoma minor
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pseudomelatomidae
Comitas fusiformis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Zemacies informal n. sp.
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Baryspira robusta Marwick 1924
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbariidae
Coluzea aff. dentata
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Spinomelon parki
Gastropoda - Struthiolariidae
Struthiolaria subspinosa Marwick 1924
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora prognata
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Neilo awamoana
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Lentipecten hochstetteri Zittel 1864
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia trigonopsis Hutton 1873
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea australis
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis cf. zitteli Ihering 1907
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae
Gari informal n. sp.
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Marama (Hina) ovata Marwick 1927
Atamarcia aff. sulcifera Marwick 1927
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Scalpomactra informal n. sp.
Zenatia informal n. sp.
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Notocorbula humerosa Hutton 1885
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia awamoaensis
Pleuromeris sp. Conrad 1867
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand County:Geraldine
Coordinates: 44.2° South, 171.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.6° South, 176.9° 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:Mount Brown
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: No lithostratigraphic data stated in text, other than being derived from glauconitic sandstone with conglomerate, about 900 ft above the limestone. Estimated to be from Waikari Formation based on correlation figure of King et al. (1994). AGE: Altonian age= Early Miocene; Awamoan in text.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic poorly lithified conglomeratic sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Soft glauconitic sandstone with conglomerate and bands of glauconitic sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, based on facies description (moderately soft = with difficulty 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 #3052 (Hendy PhD); GS #3236
Database number:67827
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-12-12 13:34:03 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2006-12-12 13:34:03
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]