GS 208, GS 91, N137 Shakespeare Cliff (Pleistocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (40.0° S, 175.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° S, 175.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Castlecliffian (1.6 - 0.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siltstone

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 89101: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia japonica Marenzeller 1888 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum pavoninum, "Flabellum rubrum" = Monomyces rubrum
Flabellum pavoninum Lesson 1831 stony coral
subsp. pavoninum
"Flabellum rubrum" = Monomyces rubrum Quoy and Gaimard 1833 stony coral
subsp. campanulatum