McF B24, Moewaka Quarry (R13/f6500) (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (37.4° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 79.5° S, 58.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• Basal middle Heterian (Captain King's Shellbed equivalent)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by D.A.F. MacFarlan

• Repository: Otago University

Primary reference: D. A. B. MacFarlan. 1992. Triassic and Jurassic Rhynchonellacea (Brachiopoda) from New Zealand and New Caledonia. Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 31:1-310 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133862: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.09.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Tainuirhynchia tainuii MacFarlan 1992