S136/f494 - Waikareka Volcanic Fm, Kakanui: Kaiatan, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Ungulinidae
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Zemysia infrequens
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| synonym of Diplodonta | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Dosinia (Phacosoma) cf. maoriana
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | New Zealand | County: | Gore |
| Coordinates: | 45.2° South, 170.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.5° South, 169.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Kaiatan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 39.10000 - 36.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Alma | Formation: | Waikareka Volcanic | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Waikareka Volcanic Formation, which is the basal unit of the Alma Group, which is overlain by the Totara Limestone (Runangan), and in turn is overlain locally by Deborah Volcanic Fm (Whaingaroan). AGE: Kaiatan of Gage (1957) = Early Priabonian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,medium poorly lithified calcareous tuff |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Tuff, fine to medium, calcified. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, assumed, as no indication is given text of lithification state. | |
| Environment: | offshore |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Buried by submarine basaltic eruption by explosively distributed agglomerate and tuff in comparitively deep water. | |
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: Unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand). | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, gastropoda, and brachiopoda. IDENTIFIER: O. P. Olson. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated but identified by specialist and often to subgeneric and species resolution. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | GS968; Coll# 3056 (Hendy PhD) | ||
| Database number: | 67842 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-12-13 12:44:59 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | group members | Released: | 2007-12-13 12:44:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18671. | M. Gage. 1957. The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 55 [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] |