Island Cliff Site: Chattian, New Zealand
collected by R. E. Fordyce, A. Grebneff, and B. Black 1995

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Chaeomysticeti indet.
Marx et al. 2019 1 specimen
OU 22098
Actinopteri - Lampridiformes - Lamprididae
Megalampris keyesi n. gen., n. sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand State/province:Otago
Coordinates: 45.0° South, 171.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.2° South, 174.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Chattian
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kokoamu Greensand
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic lithified "limestone"
Environment:offshore indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:OU
Collectors:R. E. Fordyce, A. Grebneff, and B. Black Collection dates:January 1995
Metadata
Database number:133338
Authorizer:S. Peters, M. Uhen Enterer:S. McMullen, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-09-10 06:07:54 Last modified:2020-04-06 15:52:54
Access level:the public Released:2012-09-10 06:07:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
42921. M. D. Gottfried, R. E. Fordyce, and S. Rust. 2006. Megalampris keyesi, a Giant Moonfish (Teleostei, Lampridiformes) from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand. 26(3):544-551 [S. Peters/S. McMullen]

Secondary references:

72000 F. G. Marx, E. M. G. Fitzgerald, and R. E. Fordyce. 2019. Like phoenix from the ashes: How modern baleen whales arose from a fossil “dark age”. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64(2):231-238 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]