Where: New Zealand (45.1° S, 171.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 46.6° S, 163.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Oamaru Formation, Runangan (36.7 - 34.6 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 89074: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.05.2009, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Graphularia longissima Squires 1958 sea pen | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Lamna huttoni" = Striatolamia macrota2
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"Notidanus primigenius" = Notorhynchus primigenius1
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