Campbell's Beach, Kakanui ( of New Zealand)

Also known as J42/f6953A

Where: South Island, New Zealand (45.2° S, 170.2° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° S, 177.1° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gee Greensand Formation, Waitakian to Waitakian (25.2 - 19.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• "Mopsea Bed" and overlying greensands

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 85544: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.01.2009, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Cyathoceras periallus n. sp. Squires 1962 stony coral
Chondrichthyes
 Squaliformes - Centrophoridae
Centrophorus squamosus Bonnaterre 1788 gulper shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Megascyliorhinus cooperi Cappetta and Ward 1977 cat shark