Where: South Island, New Zealand (45.0° S, 171.0° E: paleocoordinates 51.2° S, 174.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Otekaike Limestone Formation, Duntroonian (27.3 - 25.2 Ma)
• Upper Oligocene; thin shell bed dominated by the smooth-shelled pectinid Lentipecten hochstetteri
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; glauconitic limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: M. D. Gottfried and R. E. Fordyce. 2000. An associated specimen of Carcharodon angustidens (Chondrichthyes, Lamnidae) from the late Oligocene of New Zealand, with comments on Carcharodon interrelationships. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(4):730-739 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 120295: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Lentipecten hochstetteri Zittel 1864 scallop | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Carcharodon angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens
"Carcharodon angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Mammalia | |
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