Where: New Zealand (37.4° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 79.3° S, 58.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Moewaka Formation, Late/Upper Callovian to Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 157.3 Ma)

• Early Heterian. Material from the Moewaka quarry horizon in the lower part of Moewaka Formation, within the Murihiku Supergroup.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, gray sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: Type specimens are held in the Geology Department, Univesity of Auckland.

Primary reference: H. J. Campbell and J. A. Grant-Mackie. 1995. Jurassic Pholadomyidae (Bivalvia) from New Zealand and New Caledonia. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 38:47-59 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51934: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 05.07.2005, edited by Austin Hendy and Matthew Clapham

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