N41 Motutara (Miocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (36.8° S, 174.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 176.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Muriwai Formation, Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified limestone

• volcorudite

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 89108: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum apertum
Flabellum apertum Moseley 1876 stony coral
subsp. deludens
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Stephanocyathus (Odontocyathus) ixine n. sp., Notocyathus conicus
Stephanocyathus (Odontocyathus) ixine n. sp. Squires 1958 stony coral
Notocyathus conicus Alcock 1902 stony coral