CH/f280 - Te One Limestone, Chatham Islands: Bortonian - Kaiatan, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Ikamauis ensifer
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Striatolamia macrota (Agassiz 1838)
original and current combination Otodus macrotus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias acutissima (Agassiz 1843)
recombined as Carcharias acutissimus
Chondrichthyes - Squalomorphii - Pristiophoridae
Pristiophorus lanceolatus (Davis 1888)
recombined as Pristiophorus lanceolata
Chondrichthyes - Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Heterodontus sp. de Blainville 1816
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Terebratella sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand State/province:Chatham Islands
Coordinates: 43.7° South, 176.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.6° South, 160.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Key time interval:Bortonian - Kaiatan
Age range of interval:42.60000 - 36.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kekerione Formation:Red Bluff Tuff Member:Te One Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: AGE: The Te One Limestone is assigned a Bortonian-Kaiatan age based on biostratigraphy from combination of faunal groups.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal poorly lithified calcareous grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Soft bryozoan calcarenite. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, as described as "soft"
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Molluscan assemblages give little indication of depth of deposition, but an inner-middle shelf setting is suggested; siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: REPOSITORY: Collections reposited in Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (now GNS Science) collections, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. COLLECTOR: Unknown abbreviation, MAC (1977).
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGEL Exhaustive for all faunal groups. IDENTIFIER: P.A. Maxwell, D.E. Lee, J.S. Buckeridge, I.W. Keyes, and R.F. Jenkins. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but identified by specialists, using modern nomenclature.
Metadata
Also known as:GS 12108
Database number:63106
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-08-06 00:27:31 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:group members Released:2007-08-06 00:27:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13610. H. J. Campbell, P. B. Andrews, A. G. Beu, P. A. Maxwell, A. R. Edwards, M. G. Laird, N. deB Hornibrook, D. C. Mildenhall, W. A. Watters, J. S. Buckeridge, D. E. Lee, C. P. Strong, G. J. Wilson and B. W. Hayward. 1993. Cretaceous-Cenozoic geology and biostratigraphy of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Monograph 2:1-269 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

18682 A.J.W. Hendy. 2006. The Neogene evolutionary history of New Zealand Mollusca: diversity trends, paleobiogeography, and evolutionary paleoecology. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]