Also known as Coll# 3004 (Hendy PhD)

Where: New Zealand (45.0° S, 170.8° E: paleocoordinates 56.6° S, 162.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kauru Formation (Fuchsia Group), Selandian to Selandian (61.6 - 56.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Kauru Fm, either locally overlying Kakanui Metamorphic Group (Paleozoic) or Papakaio Fm (Piripauan), and overlain locally by Tapui Glauconitic Sandstone (Bortonian). AGE: upper part of Wangaloan of Gage (1957) (disused according to Cooper et al. 2004) = ?late Teurian (current NZ stage usage) = Selandian-Thanetian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Collected by W.H. Benson. REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).

Primary reference: M. Gage. 1957. The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 55 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64701: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.09.2006

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