Tata Island (Cretaceous of New Zealand)
Also known as Locality 662
Where: South Island, New Zealand (40.8° S, 172.9° E: paleocoordinates 76.7° S, 154.8° E)
When: Cretaceous (145.0 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. Chapman. 1918. Descriptions and Revisions of the Cretaceous and Tertiary Fish-remains of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Branch Palaeontological Bulletin 7:1-41 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 204190: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.09.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes | |
Notidanus sp. Cuvier 1817 cow shark | |
Isurus sp. Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark
Lamna sp. Cuvier 1816 mackerel shark | |
"Lamna incurva" = Odontaspis incurva
"Lamna incurva" = Odontaspis incurva Davis 1888 sand tiger shark | |
"Trygon sp." = Dasyatis
"Trygon sp." = Dasyatis Rafinesque 1810 whiptail stingray |