Where: Southland, New Zealand (46.5° S, 168.8° E: paleocoordinates 75.7° S, 177.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pine Bush Formation (Kuriwao Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by B.L. Wood, J.B. Waterhouse

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1963. New Zealand species of the Permian bivalve Atomodesma Beyrich. Palaeontology 6:699-717 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41769: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.07.2004

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