Fossiliferous sediments of Kisbee Formation (new name) preserved in the Wilson River east of Puysegur Point, southwest Fiordland, are interpreted as filling a submarine canyon that was incised 160 m into Ordovician metasediments. The formation reflects deposition in quiet, deep cold water beneath floating ice, transitional into shallower water adjacent to an ice-marginal environment. The macrofauna and nannoflora indicate deposition within Castlecliffian time, somewhere between 0.5 and 1.2 Ma, at depths estimated to range between 50-150 and >200 m. A sequence of marine terraces adjacent to the Wilson River is correlated to global sea-level records, constraining the local uplift rate to 0.57 ± 0.04 mm/yr and the minimum age for Kisbee Formation to 0.69 Ma. If, as seems likely, the Matuyama-Brunhes paleomagnetic transition lies within the mapped section, Kisbee Formation is older than 0.78 Ma at the the base, and Limopsis lived in >200 m of water.