Maungataniwha f502 (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 8274

Where: New Zealand (38.8° S, 179.8° E: paleocoordinates 65.0° S, 167.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piripauan (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• ?Piripauan

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; medium-grained, gray, calcareous sandstone and shelly/skeletal packstone

• coarse sand, moderately soft and moderately calcareous, medium gray with weathered shellbeds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. A. Speden. 1973. Distribution, stratigraphy and stratigraphic relationships of Cretaceous sediments, western Raukumara Peninsula, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 16(2):243-268 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37327: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 11.03.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
? Scapanorhynchus subulatus
? Scapanorhynchus subulatus Agassiz 1843 goblin shark
"Scaponorhynchus"
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Callista sp.
Callista sp. Poli 1791 venus clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
"Pterotrigonia pseudocaudata" = Trigonia pseudocaudata, Pacitrigonia sp.
"Pterotrigonia pseudocaudata" = Trigonia pseudocaudata Hector 1886 clam
Pacitrigonia sp. Marwick 1932 clam
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Dimitobelidae
Dimitobelus cf. lindsayi