Also known as Q22/f7464

Where: North Island, New Zealand (39.8° S, 174.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° S, 175.1° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Rapanui Marine Sand Member (Rapanui Formation), Opoitian to Opoitian (5.3 - 0.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: I. W. Keyes. 1972. New records of the Elasmobranch C. Megalodon (Agassiz) and a review of the genus Carcharodon in the New Zealand fossil record. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 15(2):228-242 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 152191: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 11.11.2013, edited by Mark Uhen

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