Where: New Zealand (45.2° S, 170.9° E: paleocoordinates 51.4° S, 174.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kokoamu Formation, Duntroonian (27.3 - 25.2 Ma)
• "Miocene (Duntroon greensand)" - presumably the Kokoamu greensand
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, glauconitic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1959. Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 130(5):1-90 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187480: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Aetheia gualteri Morris 1850 |