Junction of Porter and Thomas River (R.S. Allan collection) (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (46.1° S, 168.8° E: paleocoordinates 52.2° S, 177.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Thomas Formation, Duntroonian (27.3 - 25.2 Ma)

• "Upper Tuffs" (also known as "Fan Coral bed")

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; tuffaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.S. Allan

• Repository: University of Canterbury

Primary reference: D. E. Lee and J. B. Wilson. 1979. Cenozoic and recent rhynchonellide brachiopods of New Zealand: Systematics and variation in the genus Notosaria. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 9:437-463 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208814: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.04.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Notosariidae
Notosaria antipoda Thomson 1918