Waipara River M34/fl138 (Paleocene to of New Zealand)

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

• microfossil list is incomplete
Aves
 Sphenisciformes -
"Waimanu tuatahi n. sp." = Muriwaimanu tuatahi
"Waimanu tuatahi n. sp." = Muriwaimanu tuatahi Slack et al. 2006 penguin
Dinophyceae
 Peridiniales - Peridiniaceae
 Peridiniales - Deflandreaceae