Kaihoka Point (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (40.6° S, 172.6° E: paleocoordinates 50.7° S, 177.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kaihoka Member (Abel Head Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Late Whaingaroan to Duntroonian, according to Strogan et al. (2019). Kaihoka Member is middle-upper part (Titheridge, 1977), so a Chattian age is tentatively assigned.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; conglomeratic sandstone

• Interbedded horizontal and cross stratified, locally micaceous, fine sandstones, massive granular very coarse to coarse sandstones and fine pebble to silty, sandy fine pebble conglomerate.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: University of Canterbury

Primary reference: N. Hiller and D. A. MacKinnon. 2000. A reappraisal of the systematics of the Stethothyris group of brachiopods from the Cenozoic of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 43:59-81 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206904: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.12.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Epacrothyris rennisonae
Epacrothyris rennisonae Hiller and MacKinnon 2000