Boulder Hill near Dunedin (Eocene of New Zealand)

Also known as I44/f183

Where: New Zealand (45.8° S, 170.4° E: paleocoordinates 53.2° S, 168.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Wetzeliella hampdenensis nannofossil zone, Burnside Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Wetzeliella hampdenensis Zone, middle Bartonian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.G. McMillan and R.E. Fordyce in 1988

• Found in situ.

Primary reference: R. Kohler. 1995. An Eocene turtle humerus (Dermochelyidae, Psephophorus) from New Zealand. Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 30:101-106 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167345: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 12.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

Dinophyceae
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Reptilia
 Testudines - Dermochelyidae
Maorichelys wiffeni n. gen. n. sp.
Maorichelys wiffeni n. gen. n. sp. Karl and Tichy 2007 leatherback
UO 22021