Where: Southland, New Zealand (46.2° S, 169.4° E: paleocoordinates 75.6° S, 174.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Spinomartinia spinosa brachiopod zone, "Puruhauan" Formation (Arthurton Group), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by M. Ongley, J.B. Waterhouse, G. Bishop in 1924,1959,1960,1963

• Collected by M. Ongley in 1924 and re-collected by Waterhouse in 1959 and 1960, and by Bishop in 1963

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1963. Permian gastropods of New Zealand; Part 1, Bellerophontacea and Euomphalacea. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 6:88-112 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41765: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.07.2004, edited by Leigh Fall

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