GS6073, Letham Burn (D44/f9624) (Permian of New Zealand)

Where: Southland, New Zealand (45.8° S, 168.0° E: paleocoordinates 73.9° S, 168.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mangarewa Formation (Productus Creek Group), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 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, K.N. Phillips, A.J. Waddick

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1963. Permian gastropods of New Zealand; Part 2, Pleurotomariacea (in part). New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 6:115-154 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41779: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.07.2004, edited by Leigh Fall

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Terrakea brachythaera1 Morris 1845
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Notospirifer macropustulosus" = Mesopunctia macropustulosus2
"Notospirifer macropustulosus" = Mesopunctia macropustulosus2 Waterhouse 1968
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Fletcherithyris galbina4 Waterhouse 1982
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Platyteichum loratum Waterhouse 1963 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Promytilus sp.3 Newell 1942 mussel