S127/f581 - Otekaike Limestone, Tokarahi Cliff: Late/Upper Oligocene, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Lentipecten hochstetteri
Zittel 1864
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Mammalia
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Archaeoceti indet.
Flower 1883
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Fordyce and Roberts 2009 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Kekenodon sp.
Hector 1881
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Clementz et al. 2014 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Dalpiazinidae
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Dalpiazinidae indet.
Muizon 1988
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Fordyce and Roberts 2009 | |||||||||
| > 3 spp. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Eomysticetidae
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? Eomysticetidae indet.
Sanders and Barnes 2002
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Fordyce and Roberts 2009 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | New Zealand | County: | Waitaki |
| Coordinates: | 45.0° South, 170.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.2° South, 174.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Oligocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Otiake | Formation: | Otekaike Limestone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Otekaike Limestone, which is the upper unit of the Otiake Group, overlying the Kokoamu Greensand, and is overlain by the Gee Greensand of the Kaierero Group. AGE: Duntroonian-Waitakian in text of Gage (1957), but largely Waitakian in Table 3; Waitakian = Late Chattian-early Aquitanian; hereby assigned a Late Oligocene age in ensure collection is not orphaned. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From glauconitic band. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic lithified calcareous "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone, highly calcareous. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, largely assumed, as no indication is given text of lithification state, although text says unit is cliff forming and highly calcareous, and limestone. | |
| Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: Shallow marine, carbonate. shallow mid shelf to inner shelf | |
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 |
| Museum repositories: | IGNS |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand). | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, gastropoda, and scaphopods. IDENTIFIER: O. P. Olson. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated but identified by specialist and often to subgeneric and species resolution. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | GS5661; Coll# 3071 (Hendy PhD) | ||
| Database number: | 67856 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy, M. Uhen | Enterer: | A. Hendy, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-12-13 20:25:31 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | group members | Released: | 2007-12-13 20:25:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18671. | M. Gage. 1957. The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 55 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 43356 | M. Clementz, R. E. Fordyce, S. L. Peek and D. L. Fox. 2014. Ancient marine isoscapes and isotopic evidence of bulk-feeding by Oligocene cetaceans. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/S. Bruning] | |
| 29544 | R. E. Fordyce and C. D. Roberts. 2009. Fossil Pinnipedia and Cetacea. In D. P. Gordon (ed.), New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity 553 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 18682 | A.J.W. Hendy. 2006. The Neogene evolutionary history of New Zealand Mollusca: diversity trends, paleobiogeography, and evolutionary paleoecology. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |