S56/f35, Haumuri Bluff, Okarahia Sandstone (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (42.6° S, 173.5° E: paleocoordinates 64.7° S, 144.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Okarahia Sandstone Formation (Mata Group), Piripauan (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• probably lower part of the formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• yellow-grey soft sandstone with two lensoid bands of grey very hard richly fossiliferous calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Warren and I. Speden. 1978. The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff district, South Marlborough (S56). New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 92:1-60 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78373: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Dimitobelidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus pacificus Anderson and Hanna 1935 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Pacitrigonia aff. hanetiana d'Orbigny 1842 clam
Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae