Caroline Cutting, Oreti Valley (Triassic to of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (45.9° S, 168.4° E: paleocoordinates 73.5° S, 135.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ladinian to Ladinian (242.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• "Kaihiku" (Trechmann 1917)

• bed-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 201945: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 11.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Sinucostidae
Mentzeliopsis spinosa Trechmann 1917
Mentzeliopsis horrida n. sp. Trechmann 1917
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Spiriferina carolinae n. sp. Trechmann 1917
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
"Spiriferina kaihikuana" = Alipunctifera kaihikuana
"Spiriferina kaihikuana" = Alipunctifera kaihikuana Trechmann 1917
 Spiriferinida - Pennospiriferinidae
"Spiriferina fragilis" = Punctospirella fragilis
"Spiriferina fragilis" = Punctospirella fragilis Schlotheim 1814
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
"Halorella zealandica" = Sakawairhynchia zealandica
"Halorella zealandica" = Sakawairhynchia zealandica Trechmann 1917
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
"Dielasma cf. himalayanum" = Adygella himalayana, "Dielasma zealandica n. sp." = Fletcherina zealandica
"Dielasma cf. himalayanum" = Adygella himalayana Bittner 1899
"Dielasma zealandica n. sp." = Fletcherina zealandica Trechmann 1917
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Spirigera kaihikuana Trechmann 1917
Cephalopoda
 Aulacocerida - Aulacoceratidae
Belemnites otapiriensis n. sp. Hector 1878 belemnite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
"Daonella indica" = Daonella (Arzelella) indica
"Daonella indica" = Daonella (Arzelella) indica Bittner 1899 oyster