Mount St. Mary (Triassic to of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (44.7° S, 170.3° E: paleocoordinates 74.9° S, 140.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ladinian to Ladinian (242.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• "Kaihiku Series" (Trechmann 1917)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Park

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 201926: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 11.06.2019

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida -
Nautilida indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
? Patella sp. Linnaeus 1758 limpet
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Megalodon cf. globularis" = Mysidioptera globularis, Lima sp.
"Megalodon cf. globularis" = Mysidioptera globularis Trechmann 1917 file clam
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Spirigera cf. kaihikuana Trechmann 1917
 Spiriferinida - Pennospiriferinidae
"Spiriferina cf. fragilis" = Punctospirella fragilis
"Spiriferina cf. fragilis" = Punctospirella fragilis Schlotheim 1814
 Spiriferinida - Sinucostidae
Mentzeliopsis sp. Trechmann 1917