Point Elizabeth (Eocene of New Zealand)

Also known as J31/f0096, f0098, f0100, f0105, f0107, f0112

Where: New Zealand (42.4° S, 171.2° E: paleocoordinates 54.8° S, 180.0° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Runangan (36.0 - 34.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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 ItalianĂ  di Scienze Naturali e del Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano 46:1-326 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 219493: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Acanthomorphata - Epigonidae
 Ophidiiformes - Bythitidae
"Bythidae indet." = Bythitidae
"Bythidae indet." = Bythitidae Gill 1861
 Stomiatiformes - Sternoptychidae
Valenciennellus sp. Jordan and Evermann 1895
Argyripnus rapahoensis n. sp. Schwarzhans 2019
 Stomiatiformes - Gonostomatidae