Where: Southland, New Zealand (45.8° S, 168.0° E: paleocoordinates 71.0° S, 161.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Terrakea concavum brachiopod zone, Letham Formation (Productus Creek Group), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by M.V. Rout, J.B. Waterhouse
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 52844: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 23.08.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Neochonetes beatusi Waterhouse 1964 | |
"Terrakea concava" = Paucispinauria concava
"Terrakea concava" = Paucispinauria concava Waterhouse 1964 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Aperispirifer lethamensis1 Waterhouse 1968 | |
Fletcherithyris braxtonensis2 Waterhouse 1982 | |
Plekonella southlandensis Fletcher 1952 |