S56/f32, Haumuri Bluff, Conway Siltstone (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (42.6° S, 173.5° E: paleocoordinates 57.7° S, 149.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Conway Siltstone Formation (Mata Group), Haumurian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone

• low energy, probably deeper water
• grey massive moderately soft siltstone, with scattered large hard subspherical calcareous concretions, intensely burrowed, jarosite and gypsum common

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 78381: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Dimitobelidae
"Dimitobelus hectori" = Dimitobelus (Dimitocamax) hectori
"Dimitobelus hectori" = Dimitobelus (Dimitocamax) hectori Stevens 1965 belemnite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten)
"Mixtipecten amuriensis" = Chlamys (Mixtipecten) scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium aff. membranaceum Nilsson 1827 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula woodsi Suter 1921 file clam
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
? Thyasira sp. Lamarck 1818 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
? Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
"? Eximiothracia haasti" = Thracia
"? Eximiothracia haasti" = Thracia clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria
"Nuculana (Jupiteria) amuriensis" = Jupiteria pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia sp. Möller 1842 clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae