Where: North Otago, New Zealand (45.0° S, 171.0° E: paleocoordinates 51.5° S, 173.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Otekaike Formation, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• The shake-bearing horizon is 9.9 m above the locally-exposed base of the Kokoamu Greensand. The total sequence at the site is approx. 25 m thick.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, shelly/skeletal, green, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate, replaced with phosphate, replaced with other
Collected by R. E. Fordyce, A. Grenbneff, B. V. N Black, H. Ichishima, J. Daniels, C. M. Jenkins, G. B. McMurtrie, G. Curline, and S. Rust in 1994 and 4-6 January 1995; reposited in the OU
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical
• Repository: Otago Department of Geology paleontology collections (OU 22261)
Primary reference: M. D. Gottfried and R. E. Fordyce. 2001. An Associated Specimen of Carcharodon angustidens (Chondrichthyes, Lamnidae) from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand, with Comments on Carcharodon Interrelationships. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(4):730-739 [S. Peters/S. McMullen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 134376: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 08.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Globoquadrina dehiscens Chapman et al. 1934 | |
Bivalvia | |
Lentipecten hochstetteri Zittel 1864 scallop | |
Ostracoda | |
Cytheralison amiesi ostracod | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Carcharodon angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens
"Carcharodon angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark |