Roro-o-kuri, Napier (Pleistocene of New Zealand)

Also known as V21/f0427

Where: North Island, New Zealand (39.4° S, 176.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° S, 177.2° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Nukumaruan (2.4 - 1.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 219633: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Anguilliformes - Congridae
Gnathophis sp. Kaup 1860 conger eel
 Jugulares - Hemerocoetidae
 Beryciformes - Trachichthyidae
 Gobiiformes - Gobiidae
 Blenniiformes - Tripterygiidae
Ruanoho whero Hardy 1986
"Matanui bathytaton" = Forsterygion bathytaton Hardy 1989
 Pleuronectiformes - Bothidae
Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae Günther 1862 flatfish
 Gadiformes - Moridae
 Gadiformes - Macruronidae