Waipipi (Pleistocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (39.9° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° S, 174.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Rapanui Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Rapanui Formation, Hawera Series

•G.S. 4174 is at the base of the Hawera Series (Pleistocene)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• The Mollusca are probably of warm rather than cold thermal facies.

Collection methods: Collection made from pockets among boulders resting on bored surface of Waitotaran (Lower Pliocene) age.

Primary reference: D. A. Brown. 1952. The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand. 1-405 [L. Liow/F. Franeck]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173728: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 13.10.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
 Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
Escharoides excavata MacGillivray 1860
 Cheilostomata - Arachnopusiidae
 Cheilostomata - Chaperiidae
Chaperia ? rubida Hincks 1881
Chaperia acanthina Lamouroux 1824
 Cheilostomata - Reteporidae
Triphyllozoon umbonatum MacGillivray 1884
 Cheilostomata - Microporellidae
Calloporina diadema MacGillivray 1869
Calloporina diadema angustipora
Microporella ciliata Pallas 1766