Where: New Zealand (37.6° S, 178.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° S, 179.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kapitean (6.5 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

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 89139: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.05.2009

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