North Canterbury (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Also known as Waipara River Crossing

Where: New Zealand (43.1° S, 172.8° E: paleocoordinates 49.4° S, 172.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• the geology of this area has not yet been described, but Professor Mason considers tha age of the limestone to be approximately "Hutchinsonian"

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. A. Brown. 1952. The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand. 1-405 [L. Liow/F. Franeck]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173832: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 19.10.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
 Cheilostomata - Microporellidae
Microporella hyadesi Jullien 1888