Target Gully: Otaian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Scopelus circularis Frost 1924
Frost 1934
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Megascyliorhinus cooperi Cappetta and Ward 1977
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand State/province:South Island County:Otago
Coordinates: 45.1° South, 171.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.5° South, 177.1° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Otaian
Age range of interval: 21.7 - 18.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:J41/f8498
Database number:204279
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-09-04 11:23:19 Last modified:2019-09-04 11:23:19
Access level:the public Released:2019-09-04 11:23:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
61708. I. M. Keyes. 1984. New records of fossil elasmobranch genera Megascyliorhinus, Centrophorus, and Dalatias (Order Selachii) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 27(2):203-216 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

61735 G. A. Frost. 1934. Otoliths of Fishes from the Tertiary Formations of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 63:133-144 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]