S56/f32, Haumuri Bluff, Conway Siltstone: Haumurian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Dimitobelidae
Dimitobelus hectori Stevens 1965
recombined as Dimitobelus (Dimitocamax) hectori
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia sp. Möller 1842
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis
original and current combination Jupiteria
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium aff. membranaceum (Nilsson 1827)
recombined as Pecten (Syncyclonema) membranaceus
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula woodsi Suter 1921
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Mixtipecten amuriensis
spelled with current rank as Chlamys (Mixtipecten)
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
? Panopea clausa (Wilckens 1910)
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
? Eximiothracia haasti
synonym of Thracia
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina canterburiensis
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae
? Thyasira sp. Lamarck 1818
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Oistotrigonia waiparensis (Woods 1900)
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
? Perissoptera waiparaensis
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:Conway Siltstone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siltstone
Lithology description: grey massive moderately soft siltstone, with scattered large hard subspherical calcareous concretions, intensely burrowed, jarosite and gypsum common
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: low energy, probably deeper water
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:78381
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-02-05 06:11:09 Last modified:2008-02-05 08:11:09
Access level:the public Released:2008-02-05 06:11:09
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]