Where: New Zealand (44.8° S, 170.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.6° S, 176.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maerewhenua Member (Otekaike Formation), Waitakian (25.2 - 21.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

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 89072: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.05.2009

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