Where: Otago, New Zealand (45.5° S, 169.3° E: paleocoordinates 50.4° S, 179.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dunstan Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• A 45-m-thick lignite seam beneath quartz sand. The amber-bearing strata are part of the Dunstan Formation, which together with the overlying Bannockburn Formation forms the Manuherikia Group. Based on palynological fossils such as Acaciapollenites myriosporites (Cookson) Mildenh. and Haloragacidites haloragoides Cookson & K.M. Pike and other spores and pollen of the Spinitricolpites latispinosus (D.J. McIntyre) Mildenh. & Pocknall Zone, the age of the East Roxburgh coalfield is estimated to be Burdigalian (early Miocene, 19–16 Ma).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: amber

Reposited in the OU

• Repository: Otago University

Primary reference: A. R. Schmidt, U. Kaulfuss, J. M. Bannister, V. Baranov, C. Beimforde, N. Bleile, A. Borkent, A. Busch, J. G. Conran, M. S. Engel, M. Harvey, E. M. Kennedy, P. H. Kerr, E. Kettunen, A. P. Kiecksee, F. Lengeling, J. K. Lindqvist, M. Maraun, D. C. Mildenhall, V. Perrichot, and J. Rikkinen. 2018. Amber inclusions from New Zealand. Gondwana Research 56:135-146 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 191650: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.02.2018

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