GS 3600, S178 Mataura River ( of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (46.3° S, 168.8° E: paleocoordinates 52.0° S, 178.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Waitakian (25.2 - 21.7 Ma)

• bed-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 89128: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
"Cylindrophyllia minima" = Peponocyathus minimus
"Cylindrophyllia minima" = Peponocyathus minimus Yabe and Eguchi 1937 stony coral