N88/513 Motu River (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (37.9° S, 177.6° E: paleocoordinates 75.1° S, 172.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Clarence Series Group, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• top of sandstone resembling Taitai Sandstone, ?Albian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; mudstone

• thin mudstone band

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 88971: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
? Oculina nefrens Squires 1958 stony coral