GS 241, S66 Whitewater Creek (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Where: Canterbury, New Zealand (43.3° S, 171.7° E: paleocoordinates 49.5° S, 173.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Duntroonian (27.3 - 25.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

• tuffaceous greensand

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 85545: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Cyathoceras periallus
Cyathoceras periallus Squires 1962 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
"Flabellum rubrum" = Monomyces rubrum, Flabellum pavoninum
"Flabellum rubrum" = Monomyces rubrum Quoy and Gaimard 1833 stony coral
subsp. sphenodeum
Flabellum pavoninum Lesson 1831 stony coral
subsp. distinctum
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Madrepora granulata
Madrepora granulata Tenison-Woods 1880 stony coral