Island Cliff Farm: Duntroonian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Lentipecten hochstetteri Zittel 1864
Mammalia - Cetacea
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762
Tanaka and Fordyce 2016
Chaeomysticeti indet. (Mitchell 1989)
Marx et al. 2019 1 specimen
OU 22404
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharodon angustidens (Agassiz 1835)
1 specimen
recombined as Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand State/province:South Island County:North Otago
Coordinates: 45.0° South, 171.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.2° South, 174.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Duntroonian
Age range of interval:27.30000 - 25.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Otekaike Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Oligocene; thin shell bed dominated by the smooth-shelled pectinid Lentipecten hochstetteri
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:120295
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-11-10 07:21:05 Last modified:2011-11-09 14:21:05
Access level:the public Released:2011-11-10 07:21:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

38478. M. D. Gottfried and R. E. Fordyce. 2000. An associated specimen of Carcharodon angustidens (Chondrichthyes, Lamnidae) from the late Oligocene of New Zealand, with comments on Carcharodon interrelationships. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(4):730-739 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

72000 F. G. Marx, E. M. G. Fitzgerald, and R. E. Fordyce. 2019. Like phoenix from the ashes: How modern baleen whales arose from a fossil “dark age”. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64(2):231-238 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
60053 Y. Tanaka and R. E. Fordyce. 2016. Awamokoa tokarahi, a new basal dolphin in the Platanistoidea (late Oligocene, New Zealand). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]