Where: New Zealand (44.3° S, 176.2° W: paleocoordinates 78.9° S, 135.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tupuangi Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• New Zealand Chronostratigraphy: Ngaterian Stage; late Cenomanian, Trichotomosulcites subgranulatus Assemblage Zone of New Zealand
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; lithified, carbonaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected in 2012; reposited in the IGNS
Primary reference: J. D. Stilwell, J. J. Vitacca, and C. Mays. 2016. South polar greenhouse insects (Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera) from the mid-Cretaceous Tupuangi Formation, Chatham Islands, eastern Zealandia. Alcheringa 40:502-508 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 182480: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.10.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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