Where: New Zealand (40.8° S, 175.6° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° S, 177.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mangaoranga Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. E. Wells. 1986. Record of an Upper Miocene fossil Goniocorella coral thicket, Mt Bruce, Wairarapa, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 16(2):139-144 [W. Kiessling/S. Jankowski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84313: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sophie Jankowski on 08.10.2008

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