Motunau: Nukumaruan, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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Delphinidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Fordyce and Roberts 2009 | ||||||
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cf. Pseudorca sp.
Reinhardt 1862
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Fordyce 1982 | ||||||
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cf. Orcinus sp.
Fitzinger 1860
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Fordyce 1982 | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Spheniscidae
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Palaeospheniscus novaezealandiae n. sp.
Marples 1960
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Fordyce 1982 | 1 individual | |||||
| recombined as Marplesornis novaezealandiae | |||||||
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Aptenodytes ridgeni
Simpson 1972
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Simpson 1972 | ||||||
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Pygoscelis tyreei
Simpson 1972
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Fordyce 1982 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Coordinates: | 43.0° South, 173.1° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.6° South, 174.6° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Nukumaruan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.40000 - 1.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Greta Siltstone |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 74757 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Allen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-08-28 08:12:09 | Last modified: | 2023-02-17 05:27:37 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-08-28 08:12:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29600. | B. J. Marples. 1960. A fossil penguin from the late Tertiary of North Canterbury. Records of the Canterbury Museum 7(3):185-195 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 25068 | R. E. Fordyce. 1982. The fossil vertebrate record of New Zealand. The Fossil Vertebrate Record of Australia [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] | |
| 6283 | 5% 35120 | G. G. Simpson. 1972. Didelphidae from the Chapadmalal formation in the Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales of Mar del Plata. Mar del Plata: Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales 2(1):1-40 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim] |