Tuff Band, Weston's Quarry (Eocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (45.1° S, 170.9° E: paleocoordinates 52.3° S, 170.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ototara Formation, Runangan (36.0 - 34.3 Ma)

• Tuff band (Ototara Limestone of Edwards, 1991)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Uttley; reposited in the IGNS

Primary reference: N. Hiller and D. A. MacKinnon. 2000. A reappraisal of the systematics of the Stethothyris group of brachiopods from the Cenozoic of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 43:59-81 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206889: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.12.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Stethothyris uttleyi n. gen. n. sp.
Stethothyris uttleyi n. gen. n. sp. Thomson 1918