S52/501, boulder in Slaty Creek, Waiheke Valley (Triassic to of New Zealand)

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
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
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