Where: New Zealand (38.2° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 79.2° S, 54.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• Captain King's Shellbed; basal Middle Heterian

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by D.A. Francis

• Repository: Auckland 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 134087: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.10.2012

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