Where: New Zealand (43.0° S, 172.7° E: paleocoordinates 46.8° S, 178.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Mount Brown Formation), Waiauan (13.1 - 11.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy 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 89125: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.05.2009

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