Where: Southern Island, New Zealand (45.8° S, 170.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 51.5° S, 150.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Abbotsford Mudstone Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)

• Wangaloan = Early Danian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.G. McMillan and R.E. Fordyce in 1988

• Found in situ.

Primary reference: A. G. Beu, P.A. Maxwell, and R.C. Brazier. 1990. Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 58 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177722: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.04.2016

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