Where: West Coast, New Zealand (40.7° S, 172.4° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° S, 176.0° E)
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When: Kaipuke Siltstone Formation (Westhaven Group), Otaian (21.7 - 19.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, glauconitic, gray, green, sandy, calcareous siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by I. G. Stuart
Primary reference: D. P. Gordon, I. G. Stuart, and J. D. Collen. 1994. Bryozoan fauna of the Kaipuke Siltstone, northwest Nelson: a Miocene homologue of the modern Tasman Bay coralline bryozoan grounds. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 37(3):239-247 [L. Liow/F. Franeck]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172797: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 24.08.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata | |
Celleporaria agglutinans Hutton 1873 | |
Arachnopusia unicornis Hutton 1873 | |
Hippomenella vellicata Hutton 1873 | |
Hippoporina miocenica n. sp.
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Smittoidea crepidula Brown 1952 | |
Phidoloporidae indet. Gabb and Horn 1862 |