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
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 90580: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 07.08.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Centroselachus goordi sleeper shark | |
Centrophorus sp. Müller and Henle 1837 gulper shark | |
Dalatias sp. Rafinesque 1810 shark | |
Odontaspis cf. winkleri Leriche 1905 sand tiger shark | |
Woellsteinia sp. Reinecke et al. 2001 goblin shark | |
Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810 sand shark | |
Paraorthacodus sp. Glikman 1957 elasmobranch |