GS 495, S127 Cave Valley, Oamaru: Runangan, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Lamna huttoni Davis 1888
Davis 1888
synonym of Otodus macrotus
Chondrichthyes - Squalomorphii - Hexanchidae
Notidanus primigenius Agassiz 1835
Chapman 1918
recombined as Notorhynchus primigenius
Anthozoa - Pennatulacea
Graphularia longissima Squires 1958
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 45.1° South, 171.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.2° South, 170.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Runangan
Age range of interval:36.70000 - 34.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Oamaru
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:89074
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, M. Uhen Enterer:U. Merkel, M. Uhen
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-05-04 04:11:39 Last modified:2009-05-04 07:11:39
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29819. D. F. Squires. 1958. The Cretaceous and Tertiary corals of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 29:1-107 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

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]
15452 J. W. Davis. 1888. On fossil-fish remains from the Tertiary and Cretaceo-Tertiary formations of New Zealand. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 4:1-48 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]