Revision of the Piripauan and Haumurian local stages and correlation of the Santonian‐Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) in New Zealand

Crampton, James S.; Mumme, T. C.; Raine, J. Ian; Roncaglia, Lucia; Schi⊘ler, Poul; Strong, P.; Turner, Gillian; Wilson, Graeme J.

doi:10.1080/00288306.2000.9514890

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“…In Europe and North America, the appearance of Cremnoceramus is taken as a key indicator of close proximity to the Turonian/Coniacian boundary (e.g., Noda & Matsumoto 1998;Walaszczyk & Cobban 1998;Walaszczyk & Wood 1998). Other constraints on the correlation of the Mangaotanean and younger stages (points 8-9 below and Crampton et al 2000Crampton et al , 2001 suggest that the lowest occurrence of Cremnoceramus in New Zealand predates that elsewhere and is close to the lower/middle Turonian boundary.…”

Section: The Lowest Occurrence Of the Inoceramid Genusmentioning

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Definition, age, and correlation of the Clarence series stages in New Zealand (late early to early late Cretaceous)

Crampton¹,

Tulloch

Wilson

et al. 2004

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

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The New Zealand local Clarence Series spans the Lower/Upper Cretaceous boundary and includes three stages, in ascending order, the Urutawan, Motuan, and Ngaterian. All three were defined originally from a type section at Motu Falls, Raukumara Peninsula. To address problems with their original definitions and to improve correlations between the New Zealand time-scale and Global Chronostratigraphic Scale, four key sections have been restudied: the Motu Falls and adjacent Te Waka sections, and the Coverham and Seymour sections in the Clarence valley, Marlborough. The sections contain locally abundant macrofossils and have been sampled at a reconnaissance level for dinoflagellates. In addition, a middle Motuan tuff bed in the Motu Falls section has yielded a zircon U-Pb age of 101.6 ± 0.2 Ma, and an upper Ngaterian basalt flow in the Seymour section has yielded a plagioclase Ar/Ar age of 96.1 ± 0.6 Ma. The older of these dates allows, for the first time, direct age correlation of Clarence Series stages that are based on marine strata in eastern New Zealand, with non-marine rocks in the west. Thus, the Stitts Tuff, at the base of the Pororari Group in the western South Island, is shown to be middle Motuan. the Motuan is defined using the lowest occurrence of the bivalve Aucellina euglypha in the same section. The base of the Ngaterian is defined using the lowest occurrence of the inoceramid "I." tawhanus in the Te Waka section. In all three cases, the placements of the lowest occurrence datums are subject to uncertainties that can only be resolved by further biostratigraphic and/or taxonomic study. Based on biostratigraphic data and the new radiometric dates, the following international correlations are proposed: Urutawan Stage = lower-middle Albian (108-103 Ma); Motuan Stage = middle-upper Albian (103-100 Ma); Ngaterian Stage = upper Albian to middle Cenomanian (100-95 Ma).

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Section: The Lowest Occurrence Of the Inoceramid Genusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Definition, age, and correlation of the Clarence series stages in New Zealand (late early to early late Cretaceous)

Crampton¹,

Tulloch

Wilson

et al. 2004

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

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“…Gross sedimentation rates for the entire Late CretaceousPaleocene marine section can be derived from broad-scale biostratigraphic dating. Dinoflagellate events (Roncaglia et al 1999;Crampton et al 2000) indicate that 200 m of uppermost Cretaceous Conway Formation strata in this section were deposited at an average (compacted) sedimentation rate of c. 25 m per million years. If we assume that (1) the Paleocene is complete in the section and that (2) the stratigraphic thicknesses determined by Wilson (1963) are reliable, then the average sedimentation rate for the Paleocene is less than half the Cretaceous rate-i.e., c. 10 m per million years.…”

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“…The base of this zone is defined by the first appearance of Tricolpites lilliei and is correlated with the middle-late Campanian (Crampton et al 2000). T. lilliei was recorded by Couper (1960) from terrestrial strata only a few metres above basement in the mid-Waipara section (at locality S68/f753 = M34/f7753, c. 180 m below the K/T boundary), and from several localities in marine sediments now classed as Conway Formation, up to a horizon c. 30 m below the K/T boundary (S68/f764 = M34/f7764).…”

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Pollen and spores in marine Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary sediments at mid‐Waipara River, North Canterbury, New Zealand

Vajda

Raine

2003

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

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Terrestrial pollen and spores in late Maastrichtian to early Paleocene marine strata at mid-Waipara, New Zealand, permit reconstruction of contemporary vegetation and paleoclimates. During the latest Cretaceous, spore-pollen assemblages reflect a temperate rainforest with a prominent podocarp and tree ferns component, angiosperm pollen being mainly represented by Nothofagus and Proteaceae. Disruption of the vegetation at the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary is recorded by an increase in fern spores, reduction in gymnosperm pollen, and temporary loss of angiosperm pollen both in mid Waipara and in the terrestrial sections of Moody Creek Mine and Compressor Creek. Following an interval of fern dominance, gymnosperms and later angiosperms return to the palynological record. The floral turnover at the K/T boundary is comparable to palynological records from North America and Japan, indicating that disruption of vegetation was global. Fern dominance is estimated to have lasted several thousands of years, based on foraminiferal biostratigraphy of immediate post-K/T boundary strata. This is orders of magnitude greater than seen in normal seral successions following deforestation. We suggest that the observed vegetation succession is due to a prolonged period of low ambient light levels, sufficient for photosynthesis but favouring plants already adapted to these levels (such as forest ground stratum), accompanied by a moderate temperature and moisture regime.

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“…The Conway Formation in the Waipara River area has been dated as HaumurianTeurian (Late Cretaceous-early Paleocene) based on dinoflagellate biostratigraphy (Roncaglia et al 1999, Crampton et al 2000. Sediment samples from CM Zfr 145 yielded a dinocyst assemblage attributable to the upper Alterbidinium acutulum Zone or lower Manumiella druggii Zone (early late Maastrichtian; Wilson et al 2005).…”

Section: Geological Settingmentioning

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The taphonomic attributes of a Late Cretaceous plesiosaur skeleton from New Zealand

Barnes¹,

Hiller²

2010

Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology

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Revision of the Piripauan and Haumurian local stages and correlation of the Santonian‐Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) in New Zealand

Cited by 40 publications

References 42 publications

Definition, age, and correlation of the Clarence series stages in New Zealand (late early to early late Cretaceous)

Definition, age, and correlation of the Clarence series stages in New Zealand (late early to early late Cretaceous)

Pollen and spores in marine Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary sediments at mid‐Waipara River, North Canterbury, New Zealand

The taphonomic attributes of a Late Cretaceous plesiosaur skeleton from New Zealand

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