Where: North Island, New Zealand (38.7° S, 174.6° E: paleocoordinates 50.1° S, 179.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Totoro Formation, Cenozoic (66.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Oamaruian?
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. Chapman. 1918. Descriptions and Revisions of the Cretaceous and Tertiary Fish-remains of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Branch Palaeontological Bulletin 7:1-41 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 204176: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.09.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Isurus desori Sismonda 1849 mackerel shark |