Muriwai Beach, Waitakere Ranges (Miocene of New Zealand)

Where: Auckland, New Zealand (36.8° S, 174.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 176.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. F. Squires. 1962. Additional Cretaceous and Tertiary corals from New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Geology 1(9):133-150 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85533: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Trochocyathus (Platycyathus) powelli n. sp. Squires 1962 stony coral