Island Creek (Oligocene of New Zealand)
Also known as Y16/f0367
Where: North Island, New Zealand (38.0° S, 178.1° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° S, 177.1° W)
When: Ihungia Formation, Chattian (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• Hutchinsonian, upper Oligocene
Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone
• mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. A. Frost. 1934. Otoliths of Fishes from the Tertiary Formations of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 63:133-144 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 204336: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.09.2019
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