Also known as GS 5304

Where: Canterbury, New Zealand (44.5° S, 170.9° E: paleocoordinates 52.0° S, 167.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Otaio Limonitic Greensand Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Unit 60 ft thick. Bortonian local stage = latest Lutetian-Bortonian stage (Cooper et al., 2004). Faunal list derived from multiple concretions within bed.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, concretionary sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Gair, Collins and Marwick (1950). Collections likely to be reposited in IGNS (New Zealand Geological Survey) collections, Lower Hutt, New Zealaand

Primary reference: J. Marwick. 1960. Early Tertiary Mollusca from Otaio Gorge, South Canterbury. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 33 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50149: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.05.2005

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