JDC 884N, The Castle, Pitfure Creek Road (N28/f7573) (Triassic of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (41.4° S, 173.0° E: paleocoordinates 72.9° S, 90.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Garden Formation, Oretian (227.5 - 221.0 Ma)

• Upper Oretian Stage (lower Carnian).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by J.D. Campbell

• Specimens at University of Otago

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1979. Permian and Triassic conulariid species from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 9(4):475-489 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120255: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria hectori1 Trechmann 1917 snail
Scyphozoa
 Conulariida - Conulariidae
Gondaconularia triassica n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1986 jellyfish