E45/f9452 - Otapiri Gorge, Southland (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 349; S169/0452

Where: New Zealand (46.0° S, 168.5° E: paleocoordinates 72.4° S, 60.7° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aratauran (201.4 - 188.9 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: "Lower part of lower Plagiostoma beds". Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Aratauran = Hettangian to earliest Pliensbachian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marinelithified

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, not stated in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology of lithification, not stated in text. Presumed to be lithified on the basis of age and figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

• COLLECTOR: A. McKay, 1878. REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

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 63824: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Exhaustive for reported faunas (from several monographs). New Zealand Fossil Record File (http://data.gns.cri.nz/fred/) for supplementary data., further publications and synonymies. NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and use of subgeneric and species names. IDENTIFICATION: All older collections re-identified by J.A. Marwick.
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp., Pseudolimea fida
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
Pseudolimea fida Marwick 1953 file clam
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Otapiria marshalli
Otapiria marshalli Trechmann 1923 scallop
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma sp. n. sp.
Oxytoma sp. n. sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
? Placunopsis sp.
? Placunopsis sp. Morris and Lycett 1853 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium fossatum
Entolium fossatum Marwick 1953 scallop
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Sphaeriola leedae
Sphaeriola leedae Marwick 1953 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
? Pleuromya sp.
? Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Kalentera mackayi
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Pennospiriferinidae
"Spiriferina radiata" = Callospiriferina radiata
"Spiriferina radiata" = Callospiriferina radiata Hector 1886