S55/f849, Haumuri Bluff, Tarapuhi Grit: Haumurian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Rotularia ornata
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Dimitobelidae
? Dimitobelus hectori Stevens 1965
recombined as Dimitobelus (Dimitocamax) hectori
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis
original and current combination Jupiteria
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea lapillicola
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium aff. membranaceum (Nilsson 1827)
recombined as Pecten (Syncyclonema) membranaceus
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus matotorus
Gastropoda - Siphonariidae
? Anisomyon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860
listed as ?Anisomyon sp. (= ?Tryblidium sp.)
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 42.6° South, 173.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.7° South, 149.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7-8
Key time interval:Haumurian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Mata Formation:Tarapuhi Grit
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Lithology description: green-grey hard calcareous sandstone and fine conglomerate
Environment:foreshore
Geology comments: high energy
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:78375
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-02-05 04:40:01 Last modified:2008-02-05 06:40:01
Access level:the public Released:2008-02-05 04:40:01
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]