Middle Valley Road (Eocene of New Zealand)

Also known as J38/f4

Where: South Island, New Zealand (44.2° S, 171.0° E: paleocoordinates 51.7° S, 167.2° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Bortonian (42.6 - 39.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. M. Keyes. 1984. New records of fossil elasmobranch genera Megascyliorhinus, Centrophorus, and Dalatias (Order Selachii) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 27(2):203-216 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204289: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.09.2019

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Squaliformes - Centrophoridae
Centrophorus squamosus Bonnaterre 1788 gulper shark