Clifden, Southland (Canterbury collection) (Miocene to of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (46.1° S, 167.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.4° S, 177.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Altonian to Altonian (19.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• No stratigraphic information given for these specimens

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Canterbury Museum/University of Canterbury

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 206907: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.12.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae