Mantle Grove Farm (F46/f085) (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (46.4° S, 168.8° E: paleocoordinates 75.3° S, 50.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Diamond Peak Group, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, blue mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by G. Dodd in 1993

• Repository: Otago University

Primary reference: G. R. Stevens. 2008. Dactylioceratidae (Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea) from the Early Jurassic of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 51:317-330 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137845: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Zugodactylites braunianus d'Orbigny 1845 ammonite