Also known as NZMS 260 H41/618843

Where: South Island, New Zealand (44.9° S, 169.9° E: paleocoordinates 49.7° S, 179.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Casuarinaceae pollen zone, Bannockburn Formation (Manuherikia Group), Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

• "HH4 is a 5–15 cm thick clay-silt layer notable for the large number of shell fragments of the gastropod Glyptophysa. It is located 2.15–2.35 m above the top of an obvious oncolite layer and 25.63–25.83 m above base of Bannockburn Formation."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; silty claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, sieve,

• MNZ/NMNZ, Museum of NewZealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Primary reference: R. P. Scofield, T. H. Worthy, and A. J. D. Tennyson. 2010. A Heron (Aves: Ardeidae) from the Early Miocene St Bathans Fauna of Southern New Zealand. Records of the Australian Museum 62:89-104 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175632: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 23.12.2015

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