GS 741 Upper Awatere Valley (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (42.0° S, 173.5° E: paleocoordinates 72.6° S, 168.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Clarence Series Group, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 88976: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Agatheliidae
"Haimesiastraea anchistina n. sp." = Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis
"Haimesiastraea anchistina n. sp." = Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis Duncan 1865 stony coral