J40/f181 (Eocene of New Zealand)

Also known as Waihao Downs

Where: New Zealand (44.8° S, 170.9° E: paleocoordinates 52.3° S, 167.3° W)

When: Waihao Greensand Formation, Bortonian (42.6 - 39.1 Ma)

• OU 22177 is derived from a hard, calcareous and phosphatic concretionary horizon situated 13 m below

•the glauconitic unconformity; age based on accompanying molluscs

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, glauconitic sandstone

• concretionary glauconitic sandstone block (ca. 400 kg) from hard, calcareous and phosphatic concretionary horizon

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Köhler. 1995. A new species of the fossil turtle Psephophorus (Order Testudines) from the Eocene of the South Island, New Zealand. Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand 25(3):371-384 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167710: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 29.03.2015, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

• No age-diagnostic foraminifera found, but accompanying molluscs noted, including Galeodea modesta
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Reptilia
 Testudines - Dermochelyidae
Psephophorus terrypratchetti n. sp.
Psephophorus terrypratchetti n. sp. Köhler 1995 leatherback
Holotype OU 22177
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Athleta necopinata
Athleta necopinata Suter 1917 volute