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)
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