Kaingaroa: Holocene, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Spheniscidae
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Eudyptes sp.
Vieillot 1816
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Geography
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Coordinates: | 43.7° South, 176.3° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.7° South, 176.3° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified sandstone |
| Environment: | dune |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand (Te Papa) (NMNZ). | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 198227 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-12-08 18:16:34 | Last modified: | 2018-12-08 18:16:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-12-08 18:16:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 67514. | P. R. Millener. 1999. The history of the Chatham Islands' bird fauna of the last 7000 years - a chronicle of change and extinction. Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C, 4-7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89:85-109 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |