Opuatia Stream (R13/f7048) (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (37.4° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 75.4° S, 61.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pongawhakatiki Siltstone Formation, Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by J.A. Grant-Mackie

• Repository: University of Auckland (AU)

Primary reference: M. O. Mancenido. 1993. First record of Jurassic nucleatid brachiopods from the southwest Pacific with comments on the global distribution of the group. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 100:189-207 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160386: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 18.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Nucleatidae
Linguithyris agerorum n. sp. Mancenido 1993