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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Dimitobelus lindsayi belemnite | |
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus pacificus Anderson and Hanna 1935 clam | |
Eriphyla meridiana clam | |
Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam | |
Pacitrigonia aff. hanetiana d'Orbigny 1842 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium morganianum tusk shell |