North Canterbury (Miocene of New Zealand)

Also known as Dovedale Stream

Where: New Zealand (43.0° S, 173.2° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° S, 178.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Waiauan (13.1 - 11.0 Ma)

• this horizon is probably about the same as that of the Weka Pass beds, i.e. Waiauan (Middle Miocene) acc. to Prof. Mason

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; sandy limestone

• ?sub-littoral habitat
• The material is sugary and the Polyzoa quite free and easily removed

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 173831: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 19.10.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Arachnopusiidae
 Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
Escharella fistula Brown 1952
 Cheilostomata - Aspidostomatidae
 Cheilostomata - Chaperiidae
Patsyella dentata Waters 1887
 Cheilostomata - Hippoporinidae
 Cheilostomata - Mucronellidae
Smittinella woodi n. sp. Brown 1952
 Cheilostomata - Spiroporinidae
Spiroporina pentagona d'Orbigny 1842
 Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
Sertella dovedalensis n. sp. Brown 1952
"Retepora" avicularis MacGillivray 1883
 Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
Cellaria immersa Tenison-Woods 1880