Otekaike Special School gully (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 13043, I40/f0110

Where: South Island, New Zealand (44.9° S, 170.5° E: paleocoordinates 51.1° S, 175.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Kokoamu Greensand Formation, Duntroonian (27.3 - 25.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. W. Schwarzhans. 1980. Fish otoliths from the New Zealand Tertiary. New Zealand Geological Survey Report 113:1-269 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 219337: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Jugulares - Hemerocoetidae
Hemerocoetes minutus Schwarzhans 1980
 Perciformes - Lactariidae
Lactarius sigmoidalis Frost 1934 perch-like fish
 Uranoscopiformes - Pinguipedidae
Parapercis finlayi Frost 1924