Ohineruru Bay, Totara Peninsula, Kawhia (R15/f8027) (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (38.2° S, 174.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 80.0° S, 108.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (161.5 - 154.8 Ma)

• Captain Kings Shellbed, Middle Heterian, 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

Collected by Trechmann; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. N. Gardner and H. J. Campbell. 2002. Middle to Late Jurassic bivalves of the genera Neocrassina and Trigonopis from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics 45(3):323-347 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56290: 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
"Rhynchonella (Cryptorhynchia) kawhiana n. sp." = Kawhiarhynchia kawhiana
"Rhynchonella (Cryptorhynchia) kawhiana n. sp." = Kawhiarhynchia kawhiana Trechmann 1923
Trechmann's BMNH specimens (this collection should be for Trechmann's material only)
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
"Astarte (Opis) morgani n. sp." = Trigonopis morgani
"Astarte (Opis) morgani n. sp." = Trigonopis morgani Trechmann 1923 clam