GS5185, Lake Alabaster (Permian of New Zealand)

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
 Myalinida - Atomodesmatidae
"Atomodesma ? trechmanni" = Maitaia trechmanni
"Atomodesma ? trechmanni" = Maitaia trechmanni Marwick 1934 clam