Where: New Zealand (46.0° S, 167.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° S, 178.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Calamity Pit Sandstone Member (Nga Pari Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, fine-grained, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. M. Hyden and J. Forest. 1980. An in situ hermit crab from the Early Miocene of southern New Zealand. Palaeontology 23(2):471-474 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44898: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.09.2004, edited by Mark Uhen and Austin Hendy

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