GS7352, Letham Burn (D44/f9870) (Permian of New Zealand)

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

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mangarewa Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

• pockets of shells, some of which have both valves intact, buried in sandstone in which the volcanic-derived grains are subrounded, and 0.05 to 0.1 to 0.3 mm in diameter, with numerous atomodesmid prisms

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1964. Permian brachiopods of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Palaeontological Bulletin 35:1-212 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52189: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 30.07.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
"? Vacunella aff. etheridgei" = Cunavella etheridgei1
"? Vacunella aff. etheridgei" = Cunavella etheridgei1 de Koninck 1877 clam
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Streblochondria parkesi2
Streblochondria parkesi2 Fletcher 1929 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Ingelarella dissimilis n. sp." = Tomiopsis (Johndearia) dissimilis
"Ingelarella dissimilis n. sp." = Tomiopsis (Johndearia) dissimilis Waterhouse 1964
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Neochonetes beatusi n. sp.
Neochonetes beatusi n. sp. Waterhouse 1964
1Waterhouse 1969; 2Waterhouse 1982