ammonites
Milburn Quarry (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Also known as H45/f22

Where: South Otago, New Zealand (46.1° S, 170.0° E: paleocoordinates 52.3° S, 175.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Milburn Limestone Formation, Chattian (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Waitakian, Oligocene; the Oligocene portion of the Waitakian is Chattian

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: A. R. Andrew. 1906. On the geology of the Clarendon phosphate deposits, Otago, New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 38:447-482 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45653: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.11.2004, edited by Austin Hendy