Where: New Zealand (40.8° S, 175.6° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° S, 177.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mangaoranga Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. E. Wells. 1986. Record of an Upper Miocene fossil Goniocorella coral thicket, Mt Bruce, Wairarapa, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 16(2):139-144 [W. Kiessling/S. Jankowski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 84313: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sophie Jankowski on 08.10.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Cassidulina neocarinata Thalmann 1950 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Nodosariata | |
Foraminifera | |
"Globigerina quinqueloba" = Turborotalita quinqueloba
"Globigerina quinqueloba" = Turborotalita quinqueloba Natland 1938 | |
"Globorotalia juanai" = Globorotalia (Hirsutella) juanai
"Globorotalia juanai" = Globorotalia (Hirsutella) juanai Bermudez and Bolli 1969 | |
Globothalamea | |
Anthozoa | |
Goniocorella cf. dumosa stony coral |