Where: South Island, New Zealand (44.9° S, 169.9° E: paleocoordinates 49.7° S, 179.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Casuarinaceae pollen zone, Bannockburn Formation (Manuherikia Group), Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)
• "17 cm thick sand layer about 21.3m above the base of the Bannockburn Formation"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: quarrying, sieve,
• MNZ, Museum of NewZealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Primary reference: T. H. Worthy, A. J. D. Tennyson, C. Jones, J. A. McNamara, and B. J. Douglas. 2007. Miocene waterfowl and other birds from central Otago, New Zealand. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5(1):1-39 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 126290: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.04.2012, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dunstanetta johnstoneorum n. gen. n. sp.
Dunstanetta johnstoneorum n. gen. n. sp. Worthy et al. 2007 stiff-tailed duck MNZ S41007, distal left humerus (holotype). Paratypes: MNZS42481 a complete R cor, MNZ S42482 R ulna, MNZ S42483 L tmt lacking distal end, MNZ S42484 R tmt, MNZ S42485 pedal phalanx RII.1. Referred: MNZ S41008
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