All Day Bay (Miocene of New Zealand)

Also known as J42/f12

Where: North Otago, New Zealand (45.2° S, 170.9° E: paleocoordinates 49.6° S, 179.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Gee Greensand Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Otaian or Altonian stage. Originally said to be from the Rifle Butts Formation; assigned to the Gee Greensand by Ortega & Fordyce 2009.

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic claystone

• slightly glauconitic blue clay

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: W. B. Benham. 1935. A reptilian jaw from Kakanui, South Island, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 65:232-238 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45659: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.11.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Squalodontidae
Tangaroasaurus kakanuiensis n. gen. n. sp. Benham 1935 toothed whale
 Cetacea - Squalodelphinidae
Squalodelphinidae indet. Dal Piaz 1917 toothed whale
 Cetacea -
Prosqualodon sp. Lydekker 1894 toothed whale