Where: New Zealand (43.0° S, 172.5° E: paleocoordinates 54.4° S, 159.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Waipara Greensand Formation, Selandian to Selandian (61.6 - 56.0 Ma)
• Palaeocystodinium golzowense "indicates local Teurian Stage" and Deflandrea foveolata indicates the D. foveolata stage that is "roughly Selandian or early Late Paleocene": formation is entirely Teurian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; 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 85839: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
"Waimanu tuatahi n. sp." = Muriwaimanu tuatahi
"Waimanu tuatahi n. sp." = Muriwaimanu tuatahi Slack et al. 2006 penguin | |
Dinophyceae | |
Palaeocystodinium golzowense Alberti 1961 |