Ngapara, North Otago (NMNZ coll.) (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (44.9° S, 170.8° E: paleocoordinates 51.2° S, 174.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kokoamu Greensand Formation, Duntroonian (27.3 - 25.2 Ma)

• Whaingaroan

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museum of New Zealand

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 206895: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.12.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae