Where: New Zealand (44.5° S, 168.2° E: paleocoordinates 74.0° S, 173.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Annear Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Lower Annear Sandstone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by H.J. Harrington
Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1963. New Zealand species of the Permian bivalve Atomodesma Beyrich. Palaeontology 6:699-717 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120434: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Atomodesma ? trechmanni" = Maitaia trechmanni
"Atomodesma ? trechmanni" = Maitaia trechmanni Marwick 1934 clam |