Kaipara Harbour (Miocene of New Zealand)

Also known as Q08/f9687D

Where: North Island, New Zealand (36.2° S, 174.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° S, 176.6° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Hukatere Sandstone Formation, Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: W. Schwarzhans. 2019. Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths. Memorie Della Societa ItalianĂ  di Scienze Naturali e del Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano 46:1-326 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 219527: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Gadiformes - Gadidae
Gadiculus adversus Schwarzhans 2019
 Gadiformes - Moridae
Physiculus beui Schwarzhans 2019
 Acanthomorphata - Acropomatidae
Acropoma serrata Frost 1934
 Acanthomorphata - Epigonidae
Epigonus aquilonius Schwarzhans 2019
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Lampanyctus profestus Schwarzhans 2019 lanternfish
"Lampanyctodes scopelopsoides" = Notoscopelus scopelopsoides Schwarzhans 1980 lanternfish
Diaphus aff. perspicillatoides Brzobohaty and Nolf 1995 lanternfish
Diaphus kaiparaensis Schwarzhans 2019 lanternfish
Diaphus audax Schwarzhans 2019 lanternfish
Diaphus curvatus Schwarzhans 1980 lanternfish
Ceratoscopelus richardsoni Schwarzhans 2019 lanternfish
Symbolophorus prionotus Grenfell 1984 lanternfish
 Anguilliformes - Congridae
"Gnathophis carinatus" = Congridarum carinatus
"Gnathophis carinatus" = Congridarum carinatus Frost 1934 conger eel