Where: New Zealand (43.1° S, 172.6° E: paleocoordinates 54.5° S, 159.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Waipara Greensand Formation, Selandian to Selandian (61.6 - 56.0 Ma)

• no "age-diagnostic fossils" but collection is "older than Early Eocene, no older than Paleocene, and stratigraphic level in upper Waipara Greensand indicates Late Paleocene"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Canterbury Museum collection

Primary reference: K. E. Slack, C. M. Jones, T. Ando, G. L. Harrison, R. E. Fordyce, U. Arnason, and D. Penny. 2006. Early penguin fossils, plus mitochondrial genomes, calibrate avian evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23(6):1144-1155 [O. Will/O. Will]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85841: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.01.2009

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