S117, GS 476, 483, 486, 1341 Wharekuri, Waitaki Valley (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Where: Otago, New Zealand (44.7° S, 170.4° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° S, 175.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Wharekuri Greensand Formation, Duntroonian (27.3 - 25.2 Ma)

• Kekenodon Beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. F. Squires. 1958. The Cretaceous and Tertiary corals of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 29:1-107 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85548: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.01.2009, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Pennatulacea -
Graphularia longissima Squires 1958 sea pen
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Oculina oamaruensis Park 1917 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) salpynx Squires 1958 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum pavoninum Lesson 1831 stony coral
subsp. distinctum
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Notocyathus conicus Alcock 1902 stony coral
Notocyathus euconicus n. sp.3 Squires 1962 stony coral
Actinopteri
 Anguilliformes - Muraenidae
Congeris wharekuriensis n. sp.2 Frost 1928 eel
 Perciformes - Sparidae
Pagellus gregarius2 Koken 1891 perch-like fish
Dentex aff. subnobilis2 Schubert 1906 perch-like fish
 Uranoscopiformes - Pinguipedidae
Parapercis finlayi n. sp.1 Frost 1924