Old Rifle Butts Section: Altonian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Acropomatidae
Acropoma serrata (Frost 1934)
Actinopteri - Gadiformes - Macrouridae
Lepidorhynchus frosti Schwarzhans 2019
Coelorinchus divulgatus Schwarzhans 2019
Actinopteri - Gadiformes - Euclichthyidae
Euclichthys novaezeelandiae (Frost 1924)
Actinopteri - Gadiformes - Moridae
Auchenoceros bicaudatus (Frost 1924)
Actinopteri - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Notoscopelus resplendens (Richardson 1845)
Diaphus curvatus (Schwarzhans 1980)
Actinopteri - Anguilliformes - Congridae
Tonganago coplandi Schwarzhans et al. 2017
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand State/province:South Island County:North Otago
Coordinates: 45.1° South, 171.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.0° South, 178.3° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Altonian
Age range of interval:18.70000 - 15.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Rifle Butts
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:J41/f8497
Database number:219601
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-04-14 15:01:26 Last modified:2021-04-14 15:01:26
Access level:the public Released:2021-04-14 15:01:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
76272. W. Schwarzhans. 2019. Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths. Memorie Della Societa Italianà di Scienze Naturali e del Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano 46:1-326 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]