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
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Anthozoa | |
Trochocyathus (Platycyathus) powelli n. sp. Squires 1962 stony coral |