Where: North Island, New Zealand (36.0° S, 174.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 176.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pakaurangi Formation, Otaian (21.7 - 19.0 Ma)

• Pakaurangi formation is a best estimate: “the molluscs have much in common with those at Pakaurangi Point, Kaipara Harbour, not far to the south.”

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. G. Beu and B. A. Marshall. 2011. New Cenozoic records of genera and families from New Zealand (Mollusca, Gastropoda): highlights from Phillip Maxwell’s collection. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 54(1):13-34 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176737: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.02.2016

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