Long Beach, Clifden (Miocene of New Zealand)

Where: Southland, New Zealand (46.0° S, 167.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 47.6° S, 177.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

• corals attached to oysters and other molluscs

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. F. Squires. 1962. Additional Cretaceous and Tertiary corals from New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Geology 1(9):133-150 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85538: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2009, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
? Cladangia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Osteichthyes
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Percidarum plebejus2 Koken 1891 bony fish
Percidarum frequens2 Koken 1891 bony fish
Actinopteri
 Aulopiformes - Paraulopidae
"Elops miocaenicus" = Paraulopus miocaenicus2
"Elops miocaenicus" = Paraulopus miocaenicus2 Frost 1924
 Spariformes - Sparidae
 Ophidiiformes - Carapidae
"Fierasfer nuntius" = Carapus nuntius2
"Fierasfer nuntius" = Carapus nuntius2 Koken 1891
 Anguilliformes - Muraenidae
Congeris wharekuriensis2 Frost 1928 eel
 Anguilliformes - Congridae
"Congeris rectus n. sp." = Uroconger rectus2, "Congridarum ornatus n. sp." = Gnathophis ornatus2, Congridarum clifdenensis n. sp.2, "Ophidium pantanelli" = Rhynchoconger pantanelli1
"Congeris rectus n. sp." = Uroconger rectus2 Frost 1928 conger eel
"Congridarum ornatus n. sp." = Gnathophis ornatus2 Frost 1928 conger eel
Congridarum clifdenensis n. sp.2 Frost 1928 conger eel
"Ophidium pantanelli" = Rhynchoconger pantanelli1 Bassoli 1906 conger eel