Where: North Otago, New Zealand (44.9° S, 170.6° E: paleocoordinates 51.1° S, 174.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maerewhenua Member (Otekaike Limestone Formation), Duntroonian (27.3 - 25.2 Ma)
• upper Duntroonian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Fossils deposited at the Otogo University Museum
Primary reference: R. E. Fordyce. 1994. Waipatia maerewhenua, new genus and new species, Waipatiidae, new family, an archaic late Oligocene dolphin (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Platanistoidea) from New Zealand. In A. Berta and T. Demere (eds.), Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29:147-176 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45450: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 23.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Waipatia maerewhenua n. gen. n. sp.
Waipatia maerewhenua n. gen. n. sp. Fordyce 1994 toothed whale | |
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