Where: New Zealand (46.5° S, 169.7° E: paleocoordinates 79.5° S, 36.6° 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, gray, blue, silty mudstone
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 56273: 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 | |
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hibolithes catlinensis Hector 1878 belemnite | |
cf. Rehmannia sp. ammonite | |
Scaphopoda | |
Prodentalium sp. Young 1942 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Pleuromya milleformis Marwick 1953 clam | |
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Anisocardia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1863 clam
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882 clam
Pronoella sp. Fischer 1887 clam | |
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Vaugonia spedeni Fleming 1987 clam | |
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
Retroceramus sp. Koschelkina 1958 clam | |
Camptonectes grandis Hector 1886 scallop | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
Meleagrinella cf. echinata Smith 1819 scallop | |
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904 oyster | |
Grammatodon (Cosmetodon) keyserlingii d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
Palaeonucula cuneiformis Sowerby 1840 nut clam | |
"Dacryomya willletti" = Dacromya, Mesosaccella sp.
"Dacryomya willletti" = Dacromya pointed nut clam
Mesosaccella sp. Chavan 1946 pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Procerithium sp. Cossmann 1902 snail | |
Zygopleura sp. snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Furcirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917 | |
Aucklandirhynchia sp. MacFarlan 1992 | |
Kutchithyris sp. Buckman 1917 | |
Crinoidea | |
Isocrinus sp. von Meyer 1836 Sea lily |