Hansen Creek (Miocene of New Zealand)

Also known as M25/f57

Where: South Island, New Zealand (40.7° S, 172.4° E: paleocoordinates 49.6° S, 176.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Kaipuke Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• originally Otaian age

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, gray siltstone

• pale gray glauconitic siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Aguirre-Fernández and R. E. Fordyce. 2014. Papahu taitapu, gen. et sp. nov., an early Miocene stem odontocete (Cetacea) from New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):195-210 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 153706: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.01.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cetacea - Waipatiidae
Papahu taitapu n. gen. n. sp.
Papahu taitapu n. gen. n. sp. Aguirre-Fernández and Fordyce 2014 toothed whale