Waipawa Mouth, Pitt Island (Holocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (44.3° S, 176.2° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° S, 176.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Richards in 1992

• Repository: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand (Te Papa) (NMNZ).

Primary reference: A. J. D. Tennyson, J. H. Cooper, and L. D. Shepherd. 2015. A new species of extinct Pterodroma petrel (Procellariiformes: Procellariidae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 135:267-277 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198089: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.12.2018

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Pterodroma imberi n. sp. Tennyson et al. 2015 Imber's petrel