Where: New Zealand (40.8° S, 172.7° E: paleocoordinates 75.9° S, 178.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Flowers Formation (Parapara Group), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by G.W. Hancox, P. Vella, J.B. Waterhouse

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1969. The Permian bivalve genera Myonia, Megadesmus, Vacunella and their allies, and their occurrences in New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 41:6-141 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52897: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 25.08.2005

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