GS 440, Mount Heslington, Wairoa Gorge, Nelson (N28/f7577) (Triassic of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (41.4° S, 173.1° E: paleocoordinates 72.6° S, 90.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oretian (227.5 - 221.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the IGNS

• Repository not stated for bryozoan; assumed to be IGNS also

Primary reference: P. Schäfer and J. Grant-Mackie. 1994. Triassic Bryozoa from the Murihiku and Torlesse Supergroups, New Zealand. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 16:1-52 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33092: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 22.07.2003, edited by Matthew Clapham and Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria hectori1 Trechmann 1917 snail
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Gymnitidae
Epigymnites sp.2 Diener 1916 ceratite
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Stenoporidae "indet. 2" Waagen and Wentzel 1886