GS3614, Letham Burn (D44/f9480) (Permian of New Zealand)

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
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Neochonetes beatusi Waterhouse 1964
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Terrakea concava" = Paucispinauria concava
"Terrakea concava" = Paucispinauria concava Waterhouse 1964
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Aperispirifer lethamensis1 Waterhouse 1968
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae