Also known as I40/ f0397
Where: South Island, New Zealand (44.9° S, 170.6° E: paleocoordinates 51.1° S, 174.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maerewhenua Member (Otekaike Limestone Formation), Duntroonian (27.3 - 25.2 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: Y. Tanaka and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. A new Oligo-Miocene dolphin from New Zealand: Otekaikea huata expands diversity of the early Platanistoidea. Palaeontologia Electronica 18(2.23A):1-71 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 184888: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.03.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Globothalamea | |
Mammalia | |
cf. Yamatocetus sp. Okazaki 2012 whale |