Southland (Eocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (46.1° S, 168.8° E: paleocoordinates 53.1° S, 172.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Ototara Limestone Formation, Runangan (36.0 - 34.3 Ma)

• PJW: Was given as Landon for age: but that is an outdated group name.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: 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 173840: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 19.10.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Membranicellariidae
Omoiosia maorica Stoliczka 1865