GS 239, 243, Fan-coral Bed, Castle Hill Basin (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (43.2° S, 171.8° E: paleocoordinates 49.5° S, 173.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Duntroonian (27.3 - 25.2 Ma)

• "Fan-coral Bed" or "Upper Tuff Beds" or "tuffs between limestones"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, tuffaceous sandstone

• great meadows of Flabellum pavoninum circulare

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 89031: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Oculina oamaruensis
Oculina oamaruensis Park 1917 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) salpynx n. sp.
Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) salpynx n. sp. Squires 1958 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Notocyathus (Paradeltocyathus) orientalis, Notocyathus (Paradeltocyathus) pedicellatus
Notocyathus (Paradeltocyathus) pedicellatus Tenison-Woods 1880 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum pavoninum, "Flabellum rubrum" = Monomyces rubrum
Flabellum pavoninum Lesson 1831 stony coral
subsp. distinctum and circulare
"Flabellum rubrum" = Monomyces rubrum Quoy and Gaimard 1833 stony coral
subsp. sphenodeum