Where: New Zealand (46.5° S, 169.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 82.5° S, 84.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pounawea Formation, Early/Lower Callovian to Early/Lower Callovian (165.3 - 161.5 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

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