Where: New Zealand (42.6° S, 173.5° E: paleocoordinates 64.7° S, 144.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Okarahia Sandstone Formation (Mata Group), Piripauan (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• probably basal part of the formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Warren and I. Speden. 1978. The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff district, South Marlborough (S56). New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 92:1-60 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78363: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2008

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