N 14 Hokianga, Mitimiti (Miocene of New Zealand)
Where: Auckland, New Zealand (35.4° S, 173.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° S, 175.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone
• detrital material maybe of reef origin
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. F. Squires. 1958. The Cretaceous and Tertiary corals of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 29:1-107 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85534: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2009
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Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa | |
Astreopora cf. hochstetteri Reuss 1867 stony coral | |
Cyphastrea cf. chalcidicum Forskal 1775 stony coral | |
Oculina virgosa Squires 1958 stony coral | |
"Dictyarea sp." = Dictyaraea Reuss 1867 stony coral
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Endopachys cf. grayi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Notocyathus (Paradeltocyathus) orientalis stony coral | |
Flabellum pavoninum, "Flabellum rubrum" = Monomyces rubrum
"Flabellum rubrum" = Monomyces rubrum Quoy and Gaimard 1833 stony coral |