Where: Fiji (18.2° S, 178.8° W: paleocoordinates 18.2° S, 178.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• "Early Miocene" so presumably from the Futuna Limestone (now considered to be Middle Miocene; Nunn, 1987)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by F.I. Coulson; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1978. Tertiary and Quaternary brachiopods from the southwest Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 38:1-23 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186816: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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