GS4853, Garden Gully Road, Nelson (N28/f7554) (Permian of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (46.1° S, 169.2° E: paleocoordinates 75.4° S, 174.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by H.W. Wellman, J. Marwick

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 52767: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 19.08.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
"Strophalosia planata" = Marginalosia planata
"Strophalosia planata" = Marginalosia planata Waterhouse 1964
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Neospirifer nelsonensis" = Aperispirifer nelsonensis
"Neospirifer nelsonensis" = Aperispirifer nelsonensis Waterhouse 1964
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Plekonella acuta Campbell 1953