Awamoko: Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Waipatiidae
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Waipatiidae indet.
Fordyce 1994
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Squalodontidae
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Squalodontidae indet.
Brandt 1873
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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| > 6 spp., stem Balaenopteridae | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Mitsukurinidae
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Odontaspis elegans
(Agassiz 1838)
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| synonym of Otodus macrotus | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Lamna sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Chapman 1918 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | New Zealand | State/province: | North Otago |
| Coordinates: | 44.9° South, 170.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 50.6° South, 176.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene |
| Age range of interval: | 27.82000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | IGNS |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand). | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, gastropoda, and scaphopods. IDENTIFIER: O. P. Olson. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated but identified by specialist and often to subgeneric and species resolution. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 87888 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-03-27 07:35:52 | Last modified: | 2012-03-08 13:57:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-03-27 07:35:52 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29544. | R. E. Fordyce and C. D. Roberts. 2009. Fossil Pinnipedia and Cetacea. In D. P. Gordon (ed.), New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity 553 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 19495 | F. Chapman. 1918. Descriptions and Revisions of the Cretaceous and Tertiary Fish-remains of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Branch Palaeontological Bulletin 7:1-41 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen] |