Where: New Zealand (44.8° S, 170.9° E: paleocoordinates 52.3° S, 167.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Waihao Greensand Formation, Bortonian (42.6 - 39.1 Ma)

• Same calcareous and phosphatic concretionary

•horizon as J40/f181 [PBDB collection 167710]. The two outcrops, which are 2.5 km apart, can be linked stratigraphically.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Köhler. 1995. A new species of the fossil turtle Psephophorus (Order Testudines) from the Eocene of the South Island, New Zealand. Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand 25(3):371-384 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167712: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 29.03.2015

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