M34/f0487, Waipara River (Paleocene to of New Zealand)

Where: South Island, New Zealand (43.1° S, 172.6° E: paleocoordinates 54.5° S, 159.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Waipara Greensand Formation, Selandian to Selandian (61.6 - 56.0 Ma)

• approximately 23 m above the conformable boundary between the Waipara Greensand and the underlying late Cretaceous Loburn Formation. Late Early Paleocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2014

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• CM, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand

Primary reference: G. Mayr and R. P. Scofield. 2016. New avian remains from the Paleocene of New Zealand: the first early Cenozoic Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds) from the Southern Hemisphere. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(1):e1031343:1-5 [R. Butler/R. Butler/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175680: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 28.12.2015, edited by Mark Uhen and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Anseriformes - Vegaviidae
Vegaviidae indet.1 Agnolín et al. 2017 waterfowl
CM 2010.108.4
 Sphenisciformes -
cf. Muriwaimanu tuatahi2 Slack et al. 2006 penguin