Where: South Island, New Zealand (43.2° S, 171.7° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° S, 178.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Oamaru Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• Pareora System, Awatere series, Oamaru formation

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Davis. 1888. On fossil-fish remains from the Tertiary and Cretaceo-Tertiary formations of New Zealand. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 4:1-48 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 202915: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 23.07.2019

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