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
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
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
? Cladangia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral | |
Osteichthyes | |
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Actinopteri | |
"Elops miocaenicus" = Paraulopus miocaenicus2
"Elops miocaenicus" = Paraulopus miocaenicus2 Frost 1924 | |
Sparidarum gregarius1 Koken 1891 | |
"Fierasfer nuntius" = Carapus nuntius2
"Fierasfer nuntius" = Carapus nuntius2 Koken 1891 | |
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"Congeris rectus n. sp." = Uroconger rectus2, "Congridarum ornatus n. sp." = Gnathophis ornatus2, Congridarum clifdenensis n. sp.2, "Ophidium pantanelli" = Rhynchoconger pantanelli1
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