Where: Southland, New Zealand (46.0° S, 168.9° E: paleocoordinates 52.0° S, 177.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Chatton Formation, Duntroonian to Duntroonian (27.3 - 25.2 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal 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 85539: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Rhizangia aotearoa n. sp.
Rhizangia aotearoa n. sp. Squires 1962 stony coral |