Waikura Stream (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

Where: North Island, New Zealand (37.7° S, 178.0° E: paleocoordinates 57.4° S, 168.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Haumurian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Haumurian Stage, i.e. Upper Piripauan, Maestrichtian

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1960. The fossil decapod Crustacea of New Zealand and the evolution of the Order Decapoda. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 31:1-79 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 202173: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.06.2019

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa waikurana n. sp. Glaessner 1960 decapod