Also known as North Westland
Where: West Coast, New Zealand (42.6° S, 172.1° E: paleocoordinates 79.1° S, 99.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• "Otamian (Carnian) - Warepan (Norian)" (Fleming et al. 1954)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by F. W. Munden in 1952
Primary reference: C. A. Fleming, F. W. Munden, and R. P. Suggate. 1954. An Upper Triassic lamellibranch from the Southern Alps of North Westland, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 82:111-114 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 201498: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 10.05.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Palaeoneilo mundeni n. sp.
Palaeoneilo mundeni n. sp. Fleming et al. 1954 clam New Zealand Geological Survey GS5803 (holotype), almost complete external mould with internal mould held in place by residual shell
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