Where: New Zealand (38.9° S, 175.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° S, 177.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Waiauan (13.1 - 11.0 Ma)

• Waiauan, Late Middle Miocene, judged by Foraminifera; pers. comm. Dr. H.J. Finlay to Dr. C.A. Fleming

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F.D. Gemmell in 1925

• Repository: Geology Department, University of Auckland

Primary reference: A. G. Beu. 1973. Nautiloids of the genus Aturia from the uppermost Miocene of Australia and New Zealand. Science Reports of the Tohoku University. Second Series, Geology. Special Volume (Hatai Memorial Volume) 6:297-308 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180123: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.07.2016

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