S56/f27, Haumuri Bluff, Okarahia Sandstone: Piripauan, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Dreissensia cf. lanceolata
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Rotularia ornata
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium morganianum
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Dimitobelidae
Dimitobelus lindsayi
Cephalopoda
Ammonoidea indet. (Zittel 1884)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Gaudryceras sp. de Grossouvre 1894
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis
original and current combination Jupiteria
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium aff. membranaceum (Nilsson 1827)
recombined as Pecten (Syncyclonema) membranaceus
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula woodsi Suter 1921
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Mixtipecten amuriensis
spelled with current rank as Chlamys (Mixtipecten)
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus australis
Inoceramus pacificus Anderson and Hanna 1935
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea (Cucullastis) zealandica (Woods 1917)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Callista (Tikia) wilckensi
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea clausa (Wilckens 1910)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Anthonya elongata
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Pacitrigonia aff. hanetiana (d'Orbigny 1842)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Tudiclidae
? Tudiclana alta
Gastropoda - Littorinidae
Procancellaria parkiana
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria (Perotrochus) maoriensis
Pleurotomaria (Chelotia) woodsi
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 42.6° South, 173.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:64.7° South, 144.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Piripauan
Age range of interval:86.10000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Mata Formation:Okarahia Sandstone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: probably lower part of the formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Lithology description: yellow-grey soft sandstone with two lensoid bands of grey very hard richly fossiliferous calcareous sandstone
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:78371
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-02-05 02:51:24 Last modified:2008-02-05 04:51:24
Access level:the public Released:2008-02-05 02:51:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
26377.1% 13440G. Warren and I. Speden. 1978. The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff district, South Marlborough (S56). New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 92:1-60 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]