Where: New Zealand (38.3° S, 174.7° E: paleocoordinates 69.4° S, 73.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ngutunui Formation (Newcastle Group), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• Age given as late Otapirian (equivalent to late Rhaetian)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified sandstone and lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. A. B. MacFarlan. 1998. Mesozoic stratigraphy of the Marokopa area, southwest Auckland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 41:297-310 [D. Bottjer/N. Bonuso/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50760: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.05.2005

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