S127 Waihao River (Eocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (44.8° S, 171.0° E: paleocoordinates 52.3° S, 167.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bortonian (42.6 - 39.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

• probably offshore (nearby PBDB coll. 64747)
• marly greensands

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 89026: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum apertum, Flabellum pavoninum
Flabellum apertum Moseley 1876 stony coral
Flabellum pavoninum Lesson 1831 stony coral
subsp. circulare and distinctum
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia clavus, Notocyathus (Paradeltocyathus) pedicellatus
Caryophyllia clavus Scacchi 1835 stony coral
subsp. zelandiae
Notocyathus (Paradeltocyathus) pedicellatus Tenison-Woods 1880 stony coral