GS5613, Letham Burn (D44/f9559) (Permian of New Zealand)

Where: Southland, New Zealand (45.8° S, 167.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° S, 167.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Takitimu Group, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A.R. Mutch, A.J. Waddick in 1952

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1963. Permian gastropods of New Zealand; Part 3, Pleurotomariacea (concluded). New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 6:587-622 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41773: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.07.2004, edited by Leigh Fall

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Begg & Grant-Mackie cite Pleurotomaria hectori from D44/f9559 and assign it an Otamitan age. It is not clear whether the FRF number is a misprint or whether they mistook Spirovallum faciatum (which looks fairly similar) for P. hectori.
Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
"? Taeniothaerus cf. miniliensis" = Miniliconcha miniliensis2
"? Taeniothaerus cf. miniliensis" = Miniliconcha miniliensis2 Coleman 1957
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia prideri2 Coleman 1957
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Attenuatella altilis1 Waterhouse 1968
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Spirovallum fasciatum n. sp. Waterhouse 1963 snail