Where: North Otago, New Zealand (44.9° S, 170.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.6° S, 176.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Oligocene to Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the IGNS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: Unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).
Primary reference: R. E. Fordyce and C. D. Roberts. 2009. Fossil Pinnipedia and Cetacea. In D. P. Gordon (ed.), New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity 553 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 87888: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Squalodontidae indet. Brandt 1873 toothed whale | |
Waipatiidae indet. Fordyce 1994 toothed whale | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
Lamna sp. Cuvier 1816 mackerel shark | |
"Odontaspis elegans" = Striatolamia macrota
"Odontaspis elegans" = Striatolamia macrota Agassiz 1838 goblin shark |