Waimana f2: Teratan, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus nukeus
Inoceramus cf. opetius
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 38.2° South, 177.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:67.1° South, 177.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Teratan
Age range of interval: 90.5 - 86.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Teratan
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,blue argillaceous siltstone
Secondary lithology:shelly/skeletal packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: silt and mud, hard and non-calcareous, medium grey-blue with carbonaceous shellbeds
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:GS1406
Database number:37255
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:E. Leckey
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-03-09 10:47:46 Last modified:2006-09-03 12:28:33
Access level:the public Released:2004-03-09 10:47:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9933. I. A. Speden. 1973. Distribution, stratigraphy and stratigraphic relationships of Cretaceous sediments, western Raukumara Peninsula, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 16(2):243-268 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/J. Alroy]