GS 4291, S25/574 Mokihinui River (Miocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (41.5° S, 172.2° E: paleocoordinates 49.1° S, 175.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 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 89103: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum pavoninum Lesson 1831 stony coral
subsp. distinctum