Where: New Zealand (43.2° S, 171.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.1° S, 171.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Thomas Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• "Miocene (Ototaran)". Ototaran has been replaced by Kaitaian, Runangan, and Whaingaroan (Eocene-Oligocene, rather than Miocene). Tegulorhynchia material from type area comes from Whaingaroan strata (Lee, 1980).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1959. Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 130(5):1-90 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187476: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2017, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Tegulorhynchia squamosa Hutton 1873 | |
Actinopteri | |
Labrodon confertidens1 Chapman and Pritchard 1907 | |
Sargus laticonus2 Davis 1888 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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