Where: New Zealand (37.5° S, 177.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° S, 177.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• remains of living animals, not fossils

Environment/lithology: shoreface

Primary reference: A. N. Baker and A. L. van Helden. 1999. New records of beaked whales, genus Mesoplodon, from New Zealand (Cetacea: Ziphiidae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 29(3):235-244 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68034: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.12.2006

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