GS 3299, S38 Gannon's Bridge, Waitahu River (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (42.1° S, 171.9° E: paleocoordinates 52.3° S, 177.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Duntroonian (27.3 - 25.2 Ma)

• "about Duntroonian"

• 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 89129: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.05.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Conocyathus zelandiae Duncan 1876 stony coral