AU 3064, Paraohanga Stream, Marokopa Valley (R16/f8770) (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (38.3° S, 174.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 80.1° S, 108.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (161.5 - 154.8 Ma)

• Middle Heterian. Material from the 1 m thick Captain Kings Shellbed, within the Murihiku Supergroup.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Jurassic rocks of the Murihiku Supergroup represent estuarine and marine continental shelf sites of deposition.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: 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 56231: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.11.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Kawhiarhynchia kawhiana
Kawhiarhynchia kawhiana Trechmann 1923
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Kutchithyris hendersoni2, Crispithyris nauarchus2
Crispithyris nauarchus2 MacFarlan 2016
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Moewakamya) hudsoni1
1Campbell and Grant-Mackie 1995; 2MacFarlan 2016