Otamita Stream (Bed "F") (Triassic of New Zealand)

Also known as Hokonui Hills

Where: New Zealand (46.0° S, 168.7° E: paleocoordinates 74.4° S, 129.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• "dark slaty shales" (Trechmann 1917)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Trechmann & Marshall

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 201937: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 11.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pergamidiidae
"Mytilus problematicus" = Manticula problematica
"Mytilus problematicus" = Manticula problematica Zittel 1864 oyster