Site FF1 or HH0, Manuherikia River, H41/f059 (Miocene of New Zealand)

Where: South Island, New Zealand (44.9° S, 169.9° E: paleocoordinates 49.7° S, 179.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Casuarinaceae pollen zone, Bannockburn Formation (Manuherikia Group), Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; stromatolitic claystone

• from Miocene Lake Manuherikia, which extended > 5,600 square km
• "lower part of a clay layer enveloping stromatolites"

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: sieve,

• CM, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand

•NMNZ, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand

Primary reference: S. J. Hand, D. E. Lee, T. H. Worthy, M. Archer, J. P. Worthy, A. J. D. Tennyson, S. W. Salisbury, R. P. Scofield, D. C. Mildenhall, E. M. Kennedy, and J. K. Lindqvist. 2015. Miocene Fossils Reveal Ancient Roots for New Zealand’s Endemic Mystacina (Chiroptera) and Its Rainforest Habitat. PLoS One 10(6):e0128871 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 152098: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.11.2013, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Aves
 Charadriiformes -
Hakawai melvillei1
Hakawai melvillei1 De Pietri et al. 2015 shorebird
CM 2013.18.511, CM 2013.18.527
 Apterygiformes - Apterygidae
Proapteryx micromeros n. gen. n. sp.2
Proapteryx micromeros n. gen. n. sp.2 Worthy et al. 2013 kiwi
NMNZ S.53324 (holotype).
Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Mystacinidae
Mystacina miocenalis n. sp.
Mystacina miocenalis n. sp. Hand et al. 2015 New Zealand short-tailed bat
CM2013.18.381 (holotype).
1De Pietri et al. 2015; 2Worthy et al. 2013