Also known as GS 5560

Where: Southland, New Zealand (46.2° S, 168.9° E: paleocoordinates 58.4° S, 161.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wangaloa Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Waipawan local stage = basal Ypresian. More recent literature (Stilwell, 1993; Cooper et al., 2004) suggests a Early Teurian stage = Danian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous, pebbly conglomerate and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Finlay and Marwick. Collections are likely to be reposited in IGNZ (New Zealand Geological Survey) collections.

Primary reference: H. J. Harrington. 1958. Geology of Kaitangata Coalfield. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 59 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50209: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.05.2005

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