Where: New Zealand (40.9° S, 177.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 65.7° S, 156.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Te Mai Formation (Tinui Group), Piripauan (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Te Mai Fm, which overlies the Glenburn Fm. AGE: mid-Piripauan-Teurian (Late Campanian-Paleocene), on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. Here assigned to the Piripauan on the basis of stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite for lower part of the formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Multiple collectors. REPOSITORY: GSNZ (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).

Primary reference: M. R. Johnston. 1980. Geology of the Tinui-Awatoitoi District. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 94:1-62 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83441: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.08.2008

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