Fossil Point: Duntroonian, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Loveniidae
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Lovenia tuberculata
(Peron and Gauthier 1885)
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Beu et al. 1972 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Squalodontidae
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Austrosqualodon trirhizodonta n. gen., n. sp.
Climo and Baker 1972
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Geography
| Country: | New Zealand | State/province: | N. W. Nelson |
| Coordinates: | 40.5° South, 172.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 50.6° South, 177.9° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Oligocene | *Local age/stage: | Duntroonian |
| Key time interval: | Duntroonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.3 - 25.2 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Abel Head | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Duntroonian, Middle Oligocene |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified calcareous siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: hard calcareous siltstone | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: dated as Duntroonian by Dr. N. de B. Hornibrook, New Zealand Geological Suvey, Lower Hutt | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | S1/f526, Puponga | ||
| Database number: | 13100 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-01-21 09:33:46 | Last modified: | 2009-03-27 11:01:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-01-21 09:33:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4368. | 5% 4120 | F. M. Climo and A. N. Baker. 1972. A new shark-toothed dolphin (Cetacea: Squalodontidae) from the upper Oligocene of New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 2(1):61-68 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 61709 | A. G. Beu, R. A. Henderson, and C. S. Nelson. 1972. Notes on the taphonomy and paleoecology of New Zealand tertiary spatangoida. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 15(2):275-286 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] | |
| 12036 | R. E. Fordyce. 1980. The Fossil Cetacea of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Report 90:1-60 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 29544 | R. E. Fordyce and C. D. Roberts. 2009. Fossil Pinnipedia and Cetacea. In D. P. Gordon (ed.), New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity 553 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |