JDC 1135, Kiritehere coast, Kawhia (R16/f8519) (Triassic of New Zealand)

Where: Southland, New Zealand (38.3° S, 174.7° E: paleocoordinates 71.0° S, 84.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Otamitan (221.5 - 212.0 Ma)

• 120 m stratigraphically above the incoming of Manticula problematica. Upper Otamitan stage.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by J.D. Campbell, D.S. Coombs

• Repository: Otago University

Primary reference: J. G. Begg and J. A. Grant-Mackie. 2003. New Zealand and New Caledonian Triassic Pleurotomariidae (Gastropoda, Mollusca). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 33:223-268 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137470: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria hectori Trechmann 1917 snail