The Earthquakes (Kokoamu Greensand) (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Where: South Island, New Zealand (44.9° S, 170.6° E: paleocoordinates 51.1° S, 174.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Kokoamu Greensand Formation, Duntroonian (27.3 - 25.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic siltstone

• leached glauconitic silt

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. H. Tsai and R. E. Fordyce. 2016. Archaic baleen whale from the Kokoamu Greensand: earbones distinguish a new late Oligocene mysticete (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 46(2):117-138 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 173284: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Carlos Peredo on 15.09.2015, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Chaeomysticeti indet. Mitchell 1989 whale
OU 22380
Whakakai waipata n. gen. n. sp. Tsai and Fordyce 2016 whale
OU 21927
 Cetacea - Eomysticetidae
Eomysticetidae indet. Sanders and Barnes 2002 whale
OU 22044