Mokau River ( of New Zealand)

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

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus desori Sismonda 1849 mackerel shark