Tutaki S.D. (Miocene of New Zealand)

Where: South Island, New Zealand (41.8° S, 172.5° E: paleocoordinates 49.3° S, 175.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

• Upper Pareora or Southland Series (DC 123); Altonian (DC 108), Miocene

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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 202178: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.06.2019

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Lyreididae
Lyreidus elegans n. sp. Glaessner 1960 crab