Laidmore Road Ford S1 (Paleocene to of New Zealand)

Also known as Waipara River

Where: New Zealand (43.1° S, 172.6° E: paleocoordinates 54.5° S, 159.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Waipara Greensand Formation, Selandian to Selandian (61.6 - 56.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; glauconitic sandstone

• formation is thought to be "nearshore marine, or possibly estuarine" but shark fauna suggests a "mid-shelf interpretation" of the environment
• formation is "a sparsely fossiliferous, fine- to medium-grained, richly glauconitic quartzose sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float)

• "specimens were recovered from loose weathered material that accumulates at the foot of steep banks... Sieving of this sediment proved unsuccessful"

•Canterbury Museum collection

Primary reference: A. A. Mannering and N. Hiller. 2008. An early Cenozoic neoselachian shark fauna from the South Pacific. Palaeontology 51(6):1341-1365 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90578: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 07.08.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Synechodontiformes - Orthacodontidae
 Synechodontiformes - Paraorthacodontidae
Paraorthacodus sp. Glikman 1957 elasmobranch
 Squaliformes - Centrophoridae
Centrophorus sp. Müller and Henle 1837 gulper shark
 Hexanchiformes - Hexanchidae
Notidanodon sp. Cappetta 1975 cow shark
 Hexanchiformes - Chlamydoselachidae
"Chlamydoselachus keyesi" = Rolfodon keyesi
"Chlamydoselachus keyesi" = Rolfodon keyesi Mannering and Hiller 2008 elasmobranch
 Euselachii -
Lamniformes indet. Berg 1958 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis cf. winkleri Leriche 1905 sand tiger shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810 sand shark
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Woellsteinia sp. Reinecke et al. 2001 goblin shark