Te Reinga Falls (Pliocene of New Zealand)

Where: North Island, New Zealand (38.8° S, 177.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° S, 178.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Waipipian (3.6 - 3.0 Ma)

• mid-Pliocene

Environment/lithology: coastal; calcareous sandstone

Primary reference: R. J. Scarlett. 1983. Tereingaornis moisleyi -- a new Pliocene penguin. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 26:419-428 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74658: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
  -
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Phocidae indet. Gray 1821 seal
Aves
 Odontopterygiformes - Pelagornithidae
"Pseudodontornithidae indet." = Pelagornithidae
"Pseudodontornithidae indet." = Pelagornithidae Fürbringer 1888 bird
 Sphenisciformes - Spheniscidae
Tereingaornis moisleyi n. gen. n. sp.
Tereingaornis moisleyi n. gen. n. sp. Scarlett 1983 penguin