Where: New Zealand (39.1° S, 175.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° S, 177.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kohu Member (Mount Messenger Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• "Middle Tongaporutuan from mapping." Exact location is uncertain, although all outcrops in the general vicinity are mapped as the Kohu Member of the Mount Messenger Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K.W. Kenthorpe

• Repository: K.W. Kenthorpe collection

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 180131: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.07.2016

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