Eighty-Eight Valley (Triassic to of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (41.5° S, 173.0° E: paleocoordinates 72.9° S, 121.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ladinian to Ladinian (242.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• "Kaihiku beds" (Trechmann 1917)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: C. T. Trechmann. 1917. The Trias of New Zealand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 73(3):165-246 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201925: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 11.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Scyphozoa
 Conulariida - Conulariidae
Conularia sp. jellyfish
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Sinucostidae
Mentzeliopsis spinosa Trechmann 1917
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
"Spiriferina kaihikuana" = Alipunctifera kaihikuana
"Spiriferina kaihikuana" = Alipunctifera kaihikuana Trechmann 1917
 Rhynchonellida - Halorellidae
Halorella sp. Bittner 1884
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pergamidiidae
"Mytilus problematicus" = Manticula problematica, "Mytilus mirabilis n. sp." = Manticula problematica
"Mytilus problematicus" = Manticula problematica Zittel 1864 oyster
"Mytilus mirabilis n. sp." = Manticula problematica Zittel 1864 oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Gastropoda
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Patella nelsonensis n. sp. Trechmann 1917 limpet