Where: New Zealand (41.1° S, 173.5° E: paleocoordinates 76.3° S, 158.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aperispirifer nelsonensis brachiopod zone, Stephens Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• Whangamoa breccias

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by H.W. Wellman, T. Grant-Taylor

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 52757: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 19.08.2005

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