GS4650, Steel's House Quarry, Clinton (G45/f8591) (Permian of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (46.2° S, 169.4° E: paleocoordinates 75.8° S, 175.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Plekonella multicostata brachiopod zone, AG4 Formation (Arthurton Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

• As a rule the sediment consists of calcareous siltstone and mudstone, locally skeletal micrites, with numerous atomodesmid prisms, interleaved with fenestellid Bryozoa to varying degrees.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by B.L. Wood, A.C. Beck

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1963. Permian gastropods of New Zealand; Part 3, Pleurotomariacea (concluded). New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 6:587-622 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52766: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 19.08.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Strotostoma clintonensis2
Strotostoma clintonensis2 Waterhouse 1986 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Peruvispira "sp. B", Glabrocingulum (Ananias) campbelli, "Carinella bicarinata" = Bicarinella bicarinata
Peruvispira "sp. B" Chronic 1949 snail
Glabrocingulum (Ananias) campbelli Waterhouse 1963 snail
"Carinella bicarinata" = Bicarinella bicarinata Waterhouse 1963 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Attenuatella incurvata1
Attenuatella incurvata1 Waterhouse 1964
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Lissochonetes brevisulcus" = Capillonia brevisulcus1
"Lissochonetes brevisulcus" = Capillonia brevisulcus1 Waterhouse 1964
1Waterhouse 1964; 2Waterhouse 1986