N18/f623 - S side Waimamaku River [Otaua Fm] (Miocene to of New Zealand)
Where: New Zealand (35.6° S, 173.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 175.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Otaua Formation, Otaian to Otaian (21.7 - 15.9 Ma)
• Awamoan age in text
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone and conglomerate
• alternating sandstone and conglomerate beds. The sandstones consist of well sorted, laminated, medium to coarse sands with rare rounded pebbles up to 10 cm. in diameter, and occasional interbedded granule conglomerate bands. The conglomerates are massive to poorly laminated sandy, granule, pebble and cobble gravels
• from laminated shelly medium to coarse sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: B. W. Hayward. 1972. Geology of the Kawerua coastline, North Auckland. Tane 18:149-168 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 146596: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.06.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Frignatica (Sulconacca) vaughani" = Friginatica
"Frignatica (Sulconacca) vaughani" = Friginatica moon snail | |
Awateria sp. Suter 1917 turrid | |
Falsicolus sp. Finlay 1930 snail | |
"aff. Zeminolia sp." = Spectamen
"aff. Zeminolia sp." = Spectamen Iredale 1924 snail | |
Vaginella torpedo snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Laevidentalium pareorense tusk shell | |
"Dentalium mantelli" = Fissidentalium mantelli
"Dentalium mantelli" = Fissidentalium mantelli Zittel 1865 tusk shell | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Foraminifera | |
Spirillina sp. Reuss 1862 | |
Globocassidulina sp. Voloshinova 1960 | |
Globothalamea | |
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808 | |
Foraminifera | |
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808 | |
Nodosariata | |
Foraminifera | |
Globoquadrina dehiscens Chapman et al. 1934
Globigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Globigerinoides trilobus Reuss 1850 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 |