Where: Maruia, New Zealand (42.3° S, 172.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° S, 172.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Furnishina quadrata - Prooneotodus muelleri conodont zone, Sluice Box Formation, Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• Lowest bed of formation. The Sluice Box formation overlies the Thompsons Flat formation and underlies the Alfred formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Cooper and Simes

Primary reference: I. G. Percival, Y. Y. Zhen, J. E. Simes and R. A. Cooper. 2014. Furongian (late Cambrian) brachiopods and associated conodonts from the Takaka Terrane in the Springs Junction - Maruia area, South Island, New Zealand. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 45:55-70 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204054: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 29.08.2019

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