GS 5755, S61/31 Hurunui River (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (42.9° S, 173.3° E: paleocoordinates 49.3° S, 171.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Duntroonian (27.3 - 25.2 Ma)

• group of beds-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 89087: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia clavus Scacchi 1835 stony coral
subsp. zelandiae