Island Cliff Farm (Oligocene of New Zealand)

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
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Lentipecten hochstetteri Zittel 1864 scallop
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharodon angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens
"Carcharodon angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Cetacea indet.2 Brisson 1762 whale
 Cetacea -
Chaeomysticeti indet.1 Mitchell 1989 whale
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