O32/f9504 [Okarahia Sandstone]: Piripauan, New Zealand
collected by Collins & Wellman 1954

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Rotularia ornata
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium morganianum
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Dimitobelidae
Dimitobelus lindasyi
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis
original and current combination Jupiteria
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula woodsi Suter 1921
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus pacificus Anderson and Hanna 1935
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea (Cullastris) zealandica Woods 1917
recombined as Cucullaea (Cucullastis) zealandica
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Lahillidae
? Lahillia (Lahilleona) aff. neozelanica
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Callista (Tikia) wilckensi
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
? Eximiothracia haasti
synonym of Thracia
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Eriphyla meridiana
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Oistotrigonia sp. (Cox 1952)
original and current combination Linotrigonia (Oistotrigonia)
Pacitrigonia aff. hanetiana (d'Orbigny 1842)
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Lunatia sp. Gray 1847
Gastropoda - Littorinidae
Procancellaria parkiana
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 42.5° South, 173.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:64.7° South, 144.1° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
Formation:Okarahia Sandstone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Okarahia Sandstone, which unconformably overlies Torlesse Supergroup, and is conformably overlain by the Tarapuhi Grit. AGE: Piripauan (=Coniacian-Santonian), on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed of unknown position within formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:medium,shelly/skeletal poorly lithified silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Shelly silty medium sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, based on facies description (FRED).
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Marine deposition under moderate energy conditions, probably not far from shore and at medium to shallow depths.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:IGNS
Collectors:Collins & Wellman Collection dates:1954
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: B.W. Collins, H.W. Wellman. REPOSITORY: GSNZ (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, gastropoda, cephalopoda, and other invertebrate and vertebrate groups. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with relatively modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Also known as:S56/f504; GS6176
Database number:83516
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-08-21 09:55:00 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2008-08-21 09:55:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
28015. G. Warren and I. Speden. 1977. The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff District, South Marlborough. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 92:1-60 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]