GS5684, Pukerau Plantation (G45/f8614) (Permian of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (46.1° S, 169.2° E: paleocoordinates 76.2° S, 178.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Plekonella multicostata brachiopod zone, AG4 Formation (Arthurton Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone and lithified mudstone

• The Arthurton facies approached those of normal shelf carbonates so common in the Northern Hemisphere, with quiet conditions of steady accumulation of silt and calcilutite, interrupted by brief standstills.
• As a rule the sediment consists of calcareous siltstone and mustone, locally skeletal micrites, with numerous atomodesmid prisms, interleaved with fenestellid Bryozoa to varying degrees.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by B.L. Wood in 1949

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1964. Permian brachiopods of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Palaeontological Bulletin 35:1-212 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120640: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.11.2011

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida -
Rhynchonellida indet.