Also known as N25/f8498

Where: North Island, New Zealand (40.8° S, 172.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° S, 176.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Tarakohe Mudstone Formation, Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

• Basal Altonian, Lower Miocene. (This age was confirmed by the examination of Foramini- fera; personal communication from Mr N. de B. Hornibrook, 1953.)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1960. The fossil decapod Crustacea of New Zealand and the evolution of the Order Decapoda. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 31:1-79 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 202177: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.06.2019

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