Where: South Island, New Zealand (43.1° S, 172.6° E: paleocoordinates 54.5° S, 159.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Waipara Greensand Formation, Selandian to Selandian (61.6 - 56.0 Ma)

• a sediment sample taken from these strata includes a dinoflagellate species, which was named Apteodinium ‘trifolliculum’ by Browne et al. (2016:404) and is otherwise only known from the early late Teurian stage (about 61 Ma; Chris Clowes, pers. comm.).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Mayr, V. L. De Pietri, L. Love, A. A. Mannering, and R. P. Scofield. 2017. A well-preserved new mid-Paleocene penguin (Aves, Sphenisciformes) from the Waipara Greensand in New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6):e1398169:1-19 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 161199: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Carlos Peredo on 02.09.2014, edited by Mark Uhen

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