Island Cliff Farm: Duntroonian, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Lentipecten hochstetteri
Zittel 1864
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Cetacea indet.
Brisson 1762
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Tanaka and Fordyce 2016 | |||||||||
Chaeomysticeti indet.
(Mitchell 1989)
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Marx et al. 2019 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
OU 22404 | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharodon angustidens
(Agassiz 1835)
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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] |