Also known as GS 4876

Where: Southland, New Zealand (46.0° S, 169.0° E: paleocoordinates 52.1° S, 176.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pomahaka Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Duntroonian local stage = Chattian stage (Late Oligocene). Named the "Pomahaka Estuarine Bed"....really a correlative unit of the Chatton Marine Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Wood, identified by J. Marwick. Collection likely reposited in Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (NZ Geologic Survey) collections.

Primary reference: B.L. Wood. 1956. The Geology of the Gore Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 53 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50787: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.05.2005

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