Waipara River M34/f453 (Paleocene to of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (43.1° S, 172.6° E: paleocoordinates 54.5° S, 159.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Waipara Greensand Formation, Selandian to Selandian (61.6 - 56.0 Ma)

• "a well-preserved calcareous nannofossil assemblage... [indicates] that the age is high in the lower Teurian local stage" and "no younger" than lower Selandian, with an exact estimate of "60.5-61.6 Ma"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: Canterbury Museum collection

Primary reference: K. E. Slack, C. M. Jones, T. Ando, G. L. Harrison, R. E. Fordyce, U. Arnason, and D. Penny. 2006. Early penguin fossils, plus mitochondrial genomes, calibrate avian evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23(6):1144-1155 [O. Will/O. Will]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68822: authorized by Oliver Will, entered by Oliver Will on 08.02.2007, edited by John Alroy, Philip Mannion and Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• microfossil list is incomplete
Coccolithophyceae
 Coccolithales - Coccolithaceae
Chiasmolithus bidens Bramlette and Sullivan 1961
 Isochrysidales - Prinsiaceae
Aves
 Neornithes -
 Sphenisciformes -
Waimanu manneringi n. gen. n. sp.
Waimanu manneringi n. gen. n. sp. Slack et al. 2006 penguin
 Anseriformes - Vegaviidae
Australornis lovei n. gen. n. sp.2
Australornis lovei n. gen. n. sp.2 Mayr and Scofield 2014 waterfowl
CM 2010.108.2 - holotype (extremitas omalis of right coracoid, caudal portion of right scapula, right humerus lacking distal end, proximal end of right ulna, fragments of the shaft of a radius, and the left os carpi radiale)