Kakanui (Miocene of New Zealand)

Also known as J42/f0953

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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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: deep subtidal shelf; gray, blue siltstone

• Blue-grey siltstone of deeper water facies than Awamoa and Pukeuri.

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 219608: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Gadiformes - Euclichthyidae
 Gadiformes - Macrouridae
Lepidorhynchus frosti Schwarzhans 2019 grenadiers
Coelorinchus divulgatus Schwarzhans 2019 grenadiers
 Gadiformes - Gadidae
Gadiculus adversus Schwarzhans 2019
 Beryciformes - Trachichthyidae
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
"Lampanyctodes scopelopsoides" = Notoscopelus scopelopsoides Schwarzhans 1980 lanternfish
Diaphus curvatus Schwarzhans 1980 lanternfish
Ceratoscopelus richardsoni n. sp. Schwarzhans 2019 lanternfish
Hygophum circularis Frost 1924 lanternfish
Protomyctophum ahunga Schwarzhans 2019 lanternfish
 Stomiatiformes - Gonostomatidae
 Stomiatiformes - Sternoptychidae
Maurolicus aegrotus Schwarzhans 1980
Polyipnus plebeius Grenfell 1984
Valenciennellus fastigatus Schwarzhans 2019