S55/f790, Okarahia Stream, Okarahia Sandstone: Piripauan, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Dreissensia cf. lanceolata
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Dimitobelidae
Dimitobelus lindsayi
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis
original and current combination Jupiteria
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula woodsi Suter 1921
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes selwynensis
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus australis
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea (Cucullastis) zealandica (Woods 1917)
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Teredo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Callista (Tikia) wilckensi
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea malvernensis
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Eriphyla meridiana
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Pterotrigonia pseudocaudata (Hector 1886)
original and current combination Trigonia pseudocaudata
Oistotrigonia sp. (Cox 1952)
original and current combination Linotrigonia (Oistotrigonia)
Pacitrigonia aff. hanetiana (d'Orbigny 1842)
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 42.6° South, 173.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:64.7° South, 144.1° 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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Lithology description: yellow-grey soft sandstone with 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:78386
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-02-05 07:13:16 Last modified:2008-02-05 09:13:16
Access level:the public Released:2008-02-05 07:13:15
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]