Also known as Collection #3048 (Hendy PhD); GS #2219

Where: New Zealand (44.0° S, 170.7° E: paleocoordinates 49.1° S, 178.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mount Brown Formation, Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: No lithostratigraphic data stated in text. Estimated to be from Mount Brown Formation based on correlation figure of King et al. (1994). AGE: Altonian age= Early Miocene; Awamoan (or Hutchinosnian) in text.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, fine-grained, silty, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Collected by Marwick (1919). REPOSITORY: Collection probably reposited in New Zealand Geological Survey (IGNS) collections, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: H. W. Wellman. 1953. The Geology of the Geraldine Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey bulletin 50 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67822: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.12.2006

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