Awamoa Creek mouth beach (Miocene of New Zealand)

Also known as J41/f0385

Where: South Island, New Zealand (45.1° S, 170.9° E: paleocoordinates 50.0° S, 178.4° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Mount Harris Formation, Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal sandstone

• slabs of shelly sandstone with numerous bivalves

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 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 219604: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Aulopiformes - Paraulopidae
 Uranoscopiformes - Pinguipedidae
Parapercis finlayi Frost 1924
 Acanthomorphata - Acropomatidae
Acropoma serrata Frost 1934
 Perciformes - Lactariidae
Lactarius sigmoidalis Frost 1934 perch-like fish
 Gadiformes - Macrouridae
Coelorinchus divulgatus Schwarzhans 2019 grenadiers
Coelorinchus preaustralis Schwarzhans 2019 grenadiers
Lepidorhynchus frosti Schwarzhans 2019 grenadiers
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Diaphus curvatus Schwarzhans 1980 lanternfish
 Anguilliformes - Congridae
Gnathophis ornatus Frost 1928 conger eel