Site HH4, Home Hills Station (H41/f95) (Miocene of New Zealand)

Also known as NZMS 260 H41/618843

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)

• "HH4 is a 5–15 cm thick clay-silt layer notable for the large number of shell fragments of the gastropod Glyptophysa. It is located 2.15–2.35 m above the top of an obvious oncolite layer and 25.63–25.83 m above base of Bannockburn Formation."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; silty claystone

• littoral zone sediments of Miocene Lake Manuherikia, which extended > 5,600 square km

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, sieve,

• MNZ/NMNZ, Museum of NewZealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Primary reference: R. P. Scofield, T. H. Worthy, and A. J. D. Tennyson. 2010. A Heron (Aves: Ardeidae) from the Early Miocene St Bathans Fauna of Southern New Zealand. Records of the Australian Museum 62:89-104 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175632: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 23.12.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Matuku otagoense n. gen. n. sp., Pikaihao bartlei n. gen. n. sp.5
Matuku otagoense n. gen. n. sp. Scofield et al. 2010 heron
NMNZ S.50003 (holotype). NMNZ S.50852, NMNZ S.50853 (paratypes)
Pikaihao bartlei n. gen. n. sp.5 Worthy et al. 2013 heron
NMNZ S.53345 (holotype). NMNZ S.53346
 Psittaciformes - Strigopidae
Nelepsittacus minimus3 Worthy et al. 2011 parrot
NMNZ S.50842, NMNZ S.50843 (paratypes). NMNZ S.50870
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anserinae "unnamed species 1"4 Vigors 1825 goose
NMNZ S.50822
 Charadriiformes -
Hakawai melvillei n. gen. n. sp.1
Hakawai melvillei n. gen. n. sp.1 De Pietri et al. 2015 shorebird
NMNZ S.50806, right tarsometatarsus (holotype). NMNZ S.53360, CM 2013.18.785, NMNZ S.50716, NMNZ S.53375, NMNZ S.53399 (paratypes). Referred specimens: NMNZ S.53448, CM 2013.18.781, NMNZ S.50720, NMNZ S.52321, NMNZ S.50808, NMNZ S. 50805, NMNZ S.53365, NMNZ S.53398, NMNZ S.50906, MNZ S.50803
Reptilia
 Squamata - Scincidae
Scincidae indet.2 Gray 1825 skink
NMNZ S50707, left maxilla; S50708, 1 pair fused sacral vertebra, 1 dorsal vertebra; S50810, right femur
 Squamata -
Gekkota indet.2 squamates
NMNZ S50709, distal right femur