Where: New Zealand (38.1° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 79.2° S, 54.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)
• Captain King's Shellbed; Heterian
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the IGNS
Primary reference: J. Marwick. 1953. Divisions and faunas of the Hokonui System (Triassic and Jurassic). New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 21 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 133957: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.09.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Tainuirhynchia tainuii MacFarlan 1992 | |
Bivalvia | |
Astarte spitiensis Stoliczka 1866 clam | |
"Trigonia kawhiana" = Vaugonia (Vaugonia) kawhiana
"Trigonia kawhiana" = Vaugonia (Vaugonia) kawhiana Trechmann 1923 clam |