Hawkes Bay (Pliocene of New Zealand)

Also known as Napier Harbour

Where: New Zealand (39.5° S, 176.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° S, 177.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• no clear evidence of the horizon from which the specimens were collected

•maybe Petane Series

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• Petane Series: coarse sandstone and shell-limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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 173738: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 13.10.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Hippothoidae
Hippothoa distans
Hippothoa distans MacGillivray 1869
 Cheilostomata - Chaperiidae
Patsyella flemingi
Patsyella flemingi Brown 1952
 Cheilostomata - Microporellidae
Calloporina napierensis n. sp.
Calloporina napierensis n. sp. Brown 1952
 Cheilostomata - Crepidacanthidae
Crepidacantha zelanica
Crepidacantha zelanica Canu and Bassler 1929
 Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
Smittina trispinosa
Smittina trispinosa Johnston 1838
Smittina trispinosa aotea