Rakaia Gorge, bed "s"; (K35/f0027): Mangaotanean - Piripauan, New Zealand
collected by B.D. Fields 1980

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Pteridopsida
Leiotriletes sp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
Granulatisporites sp. Potonié and Kremp 1954
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiaceae
Laevigatosporites ovatus Wilson and Webster 1946
Verrucatosporites sp. Pflug and Thomson 1953
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Phyllocladidites mawsonii Cookson 1947
Podocarpidites sp. Cookson 1947
Angiospermae - Gunnerales
Tricolpites sp. Couper 1953
Insecta - Lepidoptera - Geometridae
? Helastia sp. Guenee 1868
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 43.5° South, 171.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:68.2° South, 150.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Turonian - Santonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Mangaotanean - Piripauan
Age range of interval: 93.7 - 83.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Monro Conglomerate
Local section:s Local bed:s
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified sandy mudstone
Lithology description: This 2-m-thick bed consists of medium grey, hard gritty mudstone, part of a 200 m sequence of interbedded conglomerates and carbonaceous mudstones of the Monro Conglomerate
Environment:alluvial fan Tectonic setting:forearc basin
Geology comments: The Monro Conglomerate, deposited as alluvial and colluvial sediments in a terrestrial environment (Field & Browne 1986, 1989; Andrews et al. 1987)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original chitin,original sporopollenin
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,peel or thin section,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:IGNS
Collectors:B.D. Fields Collection dates:1980
Metadata
Database number:121140
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2011-11-28 08:27:12 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2011-11-28 08:27:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
38654. A. C. Harris and J. I. Raine. 2002. A sclerite from a late Cretaceous moth (Insecta: Lepidoptera) from Rakaia Gorge, Canterbury, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 32(3):457-462 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]