Where: South Island, New Zealand (44.9° S, 169.8° E: paleocoordinates 49.7° S, 179.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• fish bone bed 2 m above an oncolite bed in a bluff about 200 m downstream of Croc Site

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, sieve,

• NMNZ, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Primary reference: T. H. Worthy, A. J. D. Tennyson, and R. P. Scofield. 2011. An early Miocene diversity of parrots (Aves, Strigopidae, Nestorinae) from New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(5):1102-1116 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175655: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 24.12.2015

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