S35 Cover Creek (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (42.0° S, 173.9° E: paleocoordinates 74.2° S, 162.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Clarence Series Group, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• ?Cenomanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; mudstone

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 88982: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.04.2009, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Actinopteri
 Ellimmichthyiformes -
Diplomystus coverhamensis n. sp. Chapman 1918
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Agatheliidae
"Haimesiastraea anchistina" = Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis
"Haimesiastraea anchistina" = Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis Duncan 1865 stony coral