Where: South Island, New Zealand (45.0° S, 170.8° E: paleocoordinates 51.8° S, 172.7° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Whaingaroan (34.6 - 27.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. W. Keyes. 1982. The Cenozoic sawshark Pristiophorus lanceolatus (Davis) (Order Selachii) of New Zealand and Australia, with a review of the phylogeny and distribution of world fossil and extant Pristiophoridae. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 25(4):459-474 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204239: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.09.2019

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