Ngapara ( of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (45.0° S, 170.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.8° S, 176.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Waitakian (25.2 - 21.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine

Primary reference: R. E. Fordyce. 1982. The fossil vertebrate record of New Zealand. The Fossil Vertebrate Record of Australia [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74755: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.08.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Squalodontidae
Squalodontidae indet. Brandt 1873 toothed whale
 Cetacea - Physeteridae
Physeteridae indet. Gray 1821 sperm whale