Where: New Zealand (46.5° S, 169.6° E: paleocoordinates 79.5° S, 37.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pounawea Formation, Early/Lower Callovian to Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• Late Temaikan, Murihiku Supergroup
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, fine-grained, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. N. Gardner and H. J. Campbell. 1997. The bivalve genus Grammatodon from the Middle Jurassic of the Catlins district, South Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 40:487-498 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 56241: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.11.2005, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Sedentaria | |
Bivalvia | |
Vaugonia sp. Crickmay 1930 clam | |
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Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882 clam | |
Tancredia allani Marwick 1953 clam | |
Pleuromya milleformis Marwick 1953 clam | |
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam | |
Tetorimya sp. clam | |
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Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) venustus n. sp. clam | |
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904 oyster | |
Meleagrinella cf. echinata Smith 1819 scallop | |
Camptonectes grandis Hector 1886 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Holcophylloceras sp. Spath 1927 ammonite | |
Hibolithes catlinensis Hector 1878 belemnite | |
Scaphopoda | |
Prodentalium sp. Young 1942 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
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