Also known as I40/f0399
Where: South Island, New Zealand (44.7° S, 170.6° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° S, 174.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Otekaike Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• Protula bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic limestone
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•The horizon is a loosely packed (sometimes dense) shell bed 15 m above the base of the section and within a thin (c. 20–50 cm) laterally extensive horizon with conspic- uous fossil tubeworms, Protula species.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. W. Boessenecker and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. Anatomy, feeding ecology, and ontogeny of a transitional baleen whale: a new genus and species of Eomysticetidae (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Oligocene of New Zealand. PeerJ 3:e1129 [M. Uhen/C. Peredo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 173285: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Carlos Peredo on 15.09.2015, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Mammalia | |
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Waharoa ruwhenua Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015 whale | |
Bivalvia | |
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Polychaeta | |
Protula sp.1 Risso 1826 |