Oamaru, Beach Road section (Miocene of New Zealand)

Also known as J41/f0386

Where: South Island, New Zealand (45.2° S, 170.9° E: paleocoordinates 50.0° S, 178.4° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, blue siltstone

• Blue-grey siltstone with scattered macrofossils, concretions and rare shell-rich lenses.

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 219605: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Diaphus curvatus Schwarzhans 1980 lanternfish
Electrona subasperoides Schwarzhans 2019 lanternfish
 Ophidiiformes - Ophidiidae
Neobythites lindqvisti Schwarzhans et al. 2017
 Perciformes - Lactariidae
Lactarius sigmoidalis Frost 1934 perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Cottidae
Maoricottus ovatus n. sp. Schwarzhans 2019 perch-like fish
 Acanthomorphata - Acropomatidae
Acropoma serrata Frost 1934
 Gadiformes - Macrouridae
Lepidorhynchus frosti Schwarzhans 2019 grenadiers
Coelorinchus divulgatus Schwarzhans 2019 grenadiers
Coelorinchus preaustralis Schwarzhans 2019 grenadiers
 Gadiformes - Bregmacerotidae
Bregmaceros minutus Stinton 1957
 Gadiformes - Moridae
 Gadiformes - Gadidae
Gadiculus adversus Schwarzhans 2019
 Gadiformes - Euclichthyidae
 Gadiformes - Macruronidae
 Acanthomorphata - Leptoscopidae
Waitahana sagittiformis Schwarzhans 1980
 Aulopiformes - Paraulopidae
 Anguilliformes - Congridae
Gnathophis ornatus Frost 1928 conger eel