Where: South Island, New Zealand (44.7° S, 170.8° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° S, 176.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maerewhenua Member (Otekaike Limestone Formation), Waitakian (25.2 - 21.7 Ma)

• From the upper part of the Meyers Pass Limestone, in the Waitakian stage, according to Eagle (2009).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M.K. Eagle

• Repository: Auckland University

Primary reference: M. K. Eagle. 2007. New fossil crinoids (Articulata: Comatulida) from the Late Oligocene of the Pentland Hills and Hurstlea, South Canterbury, New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Museum 44:85-110 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204563: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 11.09.2019, edited by Matthew Clapham

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