Where: New Zealand (42.8° S, 173.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° S, 177.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kapitean (6.5 - 5.3 Ma)

• The assemblage, and particularly the index species Sectipecten wollastoni, Aeneator huttoni, and Austrofusus coerulescens indicate a Kapitean age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.C. Beck, P.A. Maxwell, G. Warren, A.G. Beu in 1968; reposited in the IGNS

Primary reference: A. G. Beu. 1973. Nautiloids of the genus Aturia from the uppermost Miocene of Australia and New Zealand. Science Reports of the Tohoku University. Second Series, Geology. Special Volume (Hatai Memorial Volume) 6:297-308 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180103: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.07.2016

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