Where: New Zealand (36.8° S, 174.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 176.8° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wairere Member (Nihotupu Formation), Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Akarana Supergroup, Waitakere Group, Manukau Subgroup, Nihotupu Formation, Wairere Member (Hayward 1976b). AGE: The Wairere Member conformably overlies andesite Maori Bay pillow lavas dated at 16.8 Ma (Bandy et al. 1970), indicating early mid-Altonian (Late Burdigalian). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 15 m up cliff face.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, tuffaceous, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collected by Eagle in 1990

• COLLECTOR: M. K. Eagle. REPOSITORY: Auckland Museum, New Zealand.

Primary reference: M.K. Eagle. 1999. A new early Miocene Pseudarchaster (Asteroida: Echinodermata) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 42:551-556 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91055: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.09.2009

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