GS 7527, Mt. Heslington (N28/f7620) (Triassic of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (41.4° S, 173.1° E: paleocoordinates 70.2° S, 74.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Otamitan (221.5 - 212.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J.B. Waterhouse; reposited in the IGNS

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1960. Some Carnian pelecypods from New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 88:425-442 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137219: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria hectori Trechmann 1917 snail
Pleurotomaria cf. hectori Trechmann 1917 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pergamidiidae
Manticula problematica Zittel 1864 oyster