S137/f499 - Rifle Butts Fm, Pukeuri (Miocene of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 938, GS 1912; Coll# 3086 (Hendy PhD), GS 9685, J41/f9499

Where: New Zealand (45.0° S, 170.0° E: paleocoordinates 49.8° S, 179.4° 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

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, siliciclastic. Increasingly rapid accumulation of sediment in deepening water.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine, glauconitic, greenish-grey sandstone containing brachiopods and molluscs grading up to a fine silt or mudstone. Concretionary bands and layers of tabular concretions indicate bedding in otherwise unstratified sediment. Fossils are disseminated through the silt, and also entombed in concretions and concentrated in shell-limestone lenses. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, largely assumed, as no indication is given text of lithification state, except that concretionary layers are contrasted with the background lithology.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Collected by Park (1915-1916) and Marwick (1924), etc. 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 67900: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.12.2006, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, gastropoda, and polyplacophora. IDENTIFIER: Identifications compiled from previously published accounts and reassessments of NZGS collections, by various paleontologists. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated but identified by specialist and often to subgeneric and species resolution.
unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
"Ovaleda ardgowanica" = Sarepta
"Ovaleda ardgowanica" = Sarepta clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula tersior Marwick 1929 nut clam
"Nucula aff. nitidula" = Nucula (Nucula) nitidula Adams 1856 nut clam
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima colorata Hutton 1873 file clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Lentipecten hochstetteri Zittel 1864 scallop
Serripecten hutchinsoni Hutton 1873 scallop
 Arcida - Limopsidae
Aupouria "n. sp." Powell 1937 clam
Limopsis "n. sp." Sassi 1827 clam
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Spissatella trailli Hutton 1873 clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Kuia vellicata venus clam
Marama "n. sp." Marwick 1927 venus clam
Marama ovata Marwick 1927 venus clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Notocorbula cf. kaiparaensis" = Corbula (Notocorbula), Notocorbula humerosa
"Notocorbula cf. kaiparaensis" = Corbula (Notocorbula) clam
Notocorbula humerosa Hutton 1885 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
"Dentalium mantelli" = Fissidentalium mantelli Zittel 1865 tusk shell
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Sigapatella sp. Lesson 1830 slipper shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Caecidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Iravadiidae
Nozeba candida snail
SUBSPECIES: N. candida effusa
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
"Linemera pukeuriensis" = Alvania (Linemera), "Linemera minuta" = Alvania (Linemera), "Nobolira polyvincta" = Attenuata
"Linemera pukeuriensis" = Alvania (Linemera) snail
"Linemera minuta" = Alvania (Linemera) snail
"Nobolira polyvincta" = Attenuata snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Struthiolariidae
Struthiolaria subspinosa Marwick 1924 snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbariidae
 Neogastropoda - Volutomitridae
"Parvimitra pukeuriensis" = Peculator (Parvimitra), "Parvimitra apicalis" = Peculator (Parvimitra), "Parvimitra tumens" = Peculator (Parvimitra)
"Parvimitra pukeuriensis" = Peculator (Parvimitra) snail
"Parvimitra apicalis" = Peculator (Parvimitra) snail
"Parvimitra tumens" = Peculator (Parvimitra) snail
 Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella harrisi, "Marginella (Glabella) fraudulenta" = Glabella, "Marginella (Glabella) conica" = Glabella
Marginella harrisi margin shell
"Marginella (Glabella) fraudulenta" = Glabella margin shell
"Marginella (Glabella) conica" = Glabella margin shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Vesanula morum, Vesanula vegrandis, "Xymenella "n. sp."" = Xymene
Vesanula morum murex snail
Vesanula vegrandis murex snail
"Xymenella "n. sp."" = Xymene murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
"Merica pukeuriensis" = Cancellaria (Merica) snail
 Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
"Baryspira gigartoides" = Amalda (Baryspira)
"Baryspira gigartoides" = Amalda (Baryspira) snail
 Neogastropoda - Horaiclavidae
 Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
 Neogastropoda - Mitromorphidae
 Neogastropoda - Raphitomidae
Puha sinusigera Powell 1942 snail
 Neogastropoda - Clathurellidae
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
"Conospirus huttoni" = Conilithes
"Conospirus huttoni" = Conilithes cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
"Maoritomella pukeuriensis" = Tomopleura (Maoritomella) turrid
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius latecostata, "Hima (Mirua) socialis" = Nassarius (Hima)
"Hima (Mirua) socialis" = Nassarius (Hima) snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Zemitrella "n. sp." Finlay 1926 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
"Verconella marwicki" = Penion marwicki Finlay 1930 true whelk
Buccinulum (Evarnula) "n. sp." Swainson 1837 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fasciolariidae indet. Gray 1853 snail
LISTED AS: "n. gen. of Fasciolariidae"
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
"Austrosassia maoria" = Sassia
"Austrosassia maoria" = Sassia triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Eratoidae
"Proterato pukeuriensis" = Bellerato pukeuriensis, "Proterato (Cypraeerato) submorosa" = Lachryma (Proterato) submorosa
"Proterato pukeuriensis" = Bellerato pukeuriensis Laws 1935 snail
"Proterato (Cypraeerato) submorosa" = Lachryma (Proterato) submorosa Laws 1935 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Tanea socia moon snail
"Polinella modesta" = Polinices (Polinella) moon snail
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
? Turriscala "n. sp." de Boury 1890 wentletrap
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Zeacolpus "n. sp." Finlay 1926 turret shell
Zeacolpus pukeuriensis Marwick 1934 turret shell
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Thoristella fossilis, "Venustas suteri" = Calliostoma
"Venustas suteri" = Calliostoma top snail
INCLUDES: V. suteri suteri and V. suteri fragilis
 Trochoidea - Skeneidae
"Brookula (Aequispirella) iredalei" = Aequispirella, "Brookula (Aequispirella) tenuilirata" = Aequispirella, "Cirsonella" "n. sp.", Brookula pukeuriensis
"Brookula (Aequispirella) iredalei" = Aequispirella snail
"Brookula (Aequispirella) tenuilirata" = Aequispirella snail
"Cirsonella" "n. sp." Angas 1877 snail
 Trochoidea - Solariellidae
Zetela awamoana Laws 1939 snail
 Trochoidea - Colloniidae
Actinopteri
 Jugulares - Hemerocoetidae
Hemerocoetes minutus3 Schwarzhans 1980
Waitakia robusta3 Schwarzhans 1980
 Anguilliformes - Congridae
Gnathophis ornatus3, "Ophidium pantanelli" = Rhynchoconger pantanelli1
Gnathophis ornatus3 Frost 1928 conger eel
"Ophidium pantanelli" = Rhynchoconger pantanelli1 Bassoli 1906 conger eel
 Scorpaeniformes - Trichodontidae
? Trichodon obesus n. sp.3 Schwarzhans 1980
 Stomiatiformes - Gonostomatidae
"Polymetme glareosus n. sp." = Margrethia glareosus3
"Polymetme glareosus n. sp." = Margrethia glareosus3 Schwarzhans 1980
 Aulopiformes - Paraulopidae
"Elops miocaenicus n. sp." = Paraulopus miocaenicus1, "Chlorophthalmus miocenicus" = Paraulopus miocaenicus3
"Elops miocaenicus n. sp." = Paraulopus miocaenicus1 Frost 1924
"Chlorophthalmus miocenicus" = Paraulopus miocaenicus3 Frost 1924
 Acanthomorphata - Leptoscopidae
Leptoscopus progressus n. sp.3 Schwarzhans 1980
 Gadiformes - Ranicipitidae
Raniceps planus1 Koken 1906
n. var. novae-zeelandiae
 Gadiformes - Macrouridae
Macrurus toulai1 Schubert 1906 grenadiers
Macrurus gracilis1 Schubert 1905 grenadiers
Coelorhynchus toulai3 Schubert 1906 grenadiers
Coelorhynchus australis3 Richardson 1839 grenadiers
"Ventrifossa sagittiformis" = Nezumia sagittiformis3 Frost 1934 grenadiers
 Gadiformes - Macruronidae
 Gadiformes - Moridae
"Physiculus bicaudatus n. sp." = Auchenoceros bicaudatus1, Actuariolum bicaudatum3, Austrophycis pseudomegalops n. sp.3
"Physiculus bicaudatus n. sp." = Auchenoceros bicaudatus1 Frost 1924
Austrophycis pseudomegalops n. sp.3 Schwarzhans 1980
 Gadiformes - Gadidae
Gadiculus argenteus3 Guichenot 1850 silvery pout
Gadus elegans1 Koken 1884 cod
var. scuplta
 Gadiformes - Merlucciidae
Merluccius pukeuriensis n. sp.1 Frost 1924
 Perciformes - Sparidae
Dentex aff. subnobilis1 Schubert 1906 perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Lactariidae
Lactarius sigmoidalis3 Frost 1934 perch-like fish
 Perciformes -
 Perciformes - Serranidae
Serranidae indet.3 Swainson 1839 perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Cottidae
Cottidarum impolitus n. sp.3 Schwarzhans 1980 perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Pomadasyidae
Pomadasyidarum longicaudatus n. sp.3 Schwarzhans 1980 perch-like fish
 Spariformes - Sparidae
 Uranoscopiformes - Pinguipedidae
Parapercis finlayi3 Frost 1924
 Acanthomorphata - Sillaginidae
Sillago recta n. sp.3
Sillago recta n. sp.3 Schwarzhans 1980
 Acanthomorphata - Acropomatidae
Acropoma serrata3 Frost 1934
 Pleuronectiformes - Citharidae
Citharus latisulcatus n. sp.1 flatfish
 Pleuronectiformes - Bothidae
Bothidarum dorsolobatus n. sp.3 Schwarzhans 1980 flatfish
Arnoglossus longus n. sp.3 Schwarzhans 1980 flatfish
Arnoglossus novus n. sp.3 Schwarzhans 1980 flatfish
 Atheriniformes - Atherinidae
"Trachinus mutabilis" = Atherina gidjakensis1
"Trachinus mutabilis" = Atherina gidjakensis1 Pobedina 1956 silverside
 Scombriformes - Scombridae
Scombridae indet.3 Rafinesque 1815
 Ophidiiformes - Carapidae
Carapus aff. praecursor3 Schwarzhans 1980
"Carapus exiguus" = Onuxodon exiguus3 Stinton 1956
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
"Diaphus (Lamprossa) curvatus n. sp." = Diaphus curvatus3 Schwarzhans 1980 lanternfish
Diaphus (Diaphus) sp.3 Eigenmann and Eigenmann 1890 lanternfish
sp. 2
? Notoscopelus scopelopsoides3 Schwarzhans 1980 lanternfish
Scopelus sulcatus1 Bassoli 1906 lanternfish
Scopelus regularis3 Frost 1934 lanternfish
Diogenichthys sp.3 Bolin 1839 lanternfish
Benthosema sp.3 Goode and Bean 1896 lanternfish
 Argentiniformes - Argentinidae
Argentina subfrigida n. sp.3 Schwarzhans 1980
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Clupeidarum incisiareatus n. sp.3 Schwarzhans 1980 herring
Anchoa nitida n. sp.3 Schwarzhans 1980 herring
Osteichthyes
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Percidarum cottreaui1 Priem 1912 bony fish
Percidarum rectus1 Priem 1906 bony fish