Where: Marlborough, New Zealand (41.8° S, 174.2° E: paleocoordinates 56.9° S, 170.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Danian (65.5 - 61.7 Ma)

• RP1 radiolarian zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified chert and lithified, cherty/siliceous mudstone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: C. J. Hollis, B. D. Field, K. M. Rodgers and C. P. Strong. 2003. Stratigraphic, paleontological and geochemical data from Upper Cretaceous and Lower Paleocene strata in southeastern Marlborough, New Zealand. Science Report Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (9)1-64 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95869: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.05.2010