Where: North Island, New Zealand (39.9° S, 176.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.2° S, 179.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Clifdenian to Clifdenian (15.9 - 13.1 Ma)

• The outcrop is mostly mud‒ and siltstones below the Waiauan carbonate level and thus most likely represents the Lillburnian.

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 Italianà 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 219541: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 13.04.2021

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