Also known as GS945, GS3879, GS5671
Where: New Zealand (45.1° S, 171.0° E: paleocoordinates 49.9° S, 178.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Rifle Butts Formation (Kaierero Group), Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Rifle Butts Fm, which gradationally overlies the Gee Greensand of the Kaierero Group, and is overlain by the Kurow Group. AGE: Hutchisonian-Awamoan in text of Gage (1957); late Altonian = Burdigalian-earliest Langhian; hereby assigned to the Altonian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Lower part of the formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, shelly/skeletal, gray, green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Reposited in the IGNS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: Collected by Park (1915-1916). REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).
Primary reference: M. Gage. 1957. The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 55 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67899: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.12.2006, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium aff. marwicki, "Dentalium mantelli" = Fissidentalium mantelli
Dentalium aff. marwicki tusk shell
"Dentalium mantelli" = Fissidentalium mantelli Zittel 1865 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Syrnola sculptilis snail | |
Cirsotrema aff. lyratum wentletrap | |
Maoricolpus cavershamensis turret shell
Zeacolpus "n. sp." Finlay 1926 turret shell | |
? Eulima sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Sigapatella inflata slipper shell | |
Galeodea apodemetes, "Euspinacassis emilyae" = Echinophoria
Galeodea apodemetes snail
"Euspinacassis emilyae" = Echinophoria snail | |
Struthiolaria calcar snail
Struthiolaria subspinosa Marwick 1924 snail | |
"Marginella (Glabella) conica" = Glabella
"Marginella (Glabella) conica" = Glabella margin shell | |
Alcithoe separabilis, Alcithoe familiaris, Alcithoe armigera, Alcithoe (Leporemax) lepida, Spinomelon cf. enysi, Metamelon patruelis, Metamelon reverta, Metamelon prominima, Metamelon informis
Alcithoe separabilis volute
Alcithoe familiaris volute
Alcithoe armigera volute
Alcithoe (Leporemax) lepida volute
Spinomelon cf. enysi volute
Metamelon patruelis volute
Metamelon reverta volute
Metamelon prominima volute
Metamelon informis volute | |
"Xymenella lepida" = Xymene, Murexsul proavitus
"Xymenella lepida" = Xymene murex snail
Murexsul proavitus murex snail | |
"Austrofusus spiniferus" = Aethocola (Aethocola) spinifera
"Austrofusus spiniferus" = Aethocola (Aethocola) spinifera Finlay and McDowall 1923 snail | |
"Hima (Mirua) socialis" = Nassarius (Hima)
"Hima (Mirua) socialis" = Nassarius (Hima) snail | |
"Verconella marwicki" = Penion marwicki, Buccinulum (Evarnula) crassatinum
"Verconella marwicki" = Penion marwicki Finlay 1930 true whelk
Buccinulum (Evarnula) crassatinum true whelk | |
Bathytoma haasti Hutton 1877 snail | |
Mauidrillia unilirata snail
Mauidrillia angustata snail | |
"Conospirus cf. huttoni" = Conilithes
"Conospirus cf. huttoni" = Conilithes cone shell | |
Comitas fusiformis snail | |
Scrinium sp. Hedley 1922 snail | |
Maorivetia brevirostris snail | |
Coluzea macrior snail | |
Proximitra rutidoloma, "Parvimitra ponsatanae" = Peculator (Parvimitra)
Proximitra rutidoloma snail
"Parvimitra ponsatanae" = Peculator (Parvimitra) snail | |
Tanea socia moon snail
Sinum infirmum moon snail | |
"Venustas suteri" = Calliostoma, "Fautor marwicki" = Calliostoma (Fautor), "Fautor temporemutatus" = Calliostoma (Fautor)
"Fautor marwicki" = Calliostoma (Fautor) top snail
"Fautor temporemutatus" = Calliostoma (Fautor) top snail | |
Rhizorus reflexus snail | |
Polyplacophora | |
Lepidopleurus inquinatus chiton | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ovaleda ardgowanica" = Sarepta
"Ovaleda ardgowanica" = Sarepta clam | |
Neilo awamoana clam | |
Nucula sagittata nut clam
Nucula aff. sagittata nut clam | |
Placunanomia incisura scallop
Anomia trigonopsis Hutton 1873 jingle | |
Lentipecten hochstetteri Zittel 1864 scallop | |
"Notocorbula pumila" = Corbula (Notocorbula), Notocorbula humerosa
"Notocorbula pumila" = Corbula (Notocorbula) clam
Notocorbula humerosa Hutton 1885 clam | |
Kuia vellicata venus clam
Dosinia (Raina) bensoni Marwick 1927 venus clam | |
Hedecardium cf. greyi Hutton 1873 cockle | |
"Panope cf. orbita" = Panopea
"Panope cf. orbita" = Panopea clam | |
Spissatella trailli Hutton 1873 clam | |
Pleuromeris prolutea Marwick 1929 clam | |
Actinopteri | |
"Ophidium pantanelli" = Rhynchoconger pantanelli1
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"Trachinus mutabilis" = Atherina gidjakensis1
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