N88/f1160 - Koranga Sandstone, Harding Stream (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

Also known as GS10757

Where: New Zealand (38.4° S, 177.3° E: paleocoordinates 80.3° S, 177.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Koranga Sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Koranga Sandstone of the Taitai Series, overlies Torelsse supergroup along Maccoyella Ridge and is unconformably overlain by the the Te Wera Sandstone. THICKNESS: From bed within formation that varies in thickness between 116 (locally) and 76 m (at this section). AGE: Korangan of Wellman (1956) = Upper Aptian based on presence in unit of Aucellina radiatostriata and Maccoyella reflecta (Day 1969, Day and Speden 1970). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From between 2060 ft above base of section in slump block.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, medium-grained, pebbly siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Accumulated in shallow-water, high-energy environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Moderately hard, non-calcareous, fine, sandy siltstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, based on facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: I.G. Speden. REPOSITORY: GSNZ (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).

Primary reference: I.G. Speden. 1975. Cretaceous stratigraphy of Raukumara Peninsula. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 91 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65643: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, and other invertebrate groups (cephalopoda, gastropoda, echinoidea, bryozoa, annelida listed). NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, and generally lacking species-level designations. Identified by specialist (Speden), and lack of species names reflects poor preservation and insufficient existing taxonomic knowledge.
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes sp.
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Aucellina cf. radiatostriata
Aucellina cf. radiatostriata Bonarelli and Nagera 1921 scallop
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp.
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam