Kakanui (Paleogene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (45.2° S, 170.9° E: paleocoordinates 52.0° S, 172.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Ototara Limestone Formation, Whaingaroan (34.6 - 27.3 Ma)

• Age and formation after Ksepka et al (2012)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. H. Huxley. 1859. On a fossil bird and a fossil cetacean from New Zealand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 15:670-677 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74587: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Sphenisciformes - Spheniscidae
Palaeudyptes antarcticus n. gen. n. sp.
Palaeudyptes antarcticus n. gen. n. sp. Huxley 1859 penguin