Where: South Island, New Zealand (45.1° S, 171.0° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° S, 174.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kowai Formation, Opoitian (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann, C. E. Schweitzer, P. A. Maxwell and B. M. Kelley. 2008. Fossil isopod and decapod crustaceans from the Kowai Formation (Pliocene) near Makikihi, South Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 51:43-58 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 124380: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 14.02.2012, edited by Mark Uhen