GS 50, S31 Inangahua Junction (Miocene to of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (41.8° S, 171.9° E: paleocoordinates 49.9° S, 175.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Otaian to Otaian (21.7 - 15.9 Ma)

• ?Otaian-Altonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; mudstone

• dark mudstone

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 89127: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae