Locality R17/f8595, Awakino (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (38.6° S, 174.9° E: paleocoordinates 82.6° S, 50.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ohineruru Formation, Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• Middle Heterian, Murihiku Supergroup

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, tuffaceous, brown sandstone

• Jurassic rocks of the Murihiku Supergroup represent estuarine and marine continental shelf sites of deposition.
• fine-coarse grained medium brown tuffaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. N. Gardner and H. J. Campbell. 2002. Middle to Late Jurassic bivalves of the genera Neocrassina and Trigonopis from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics 45(3):323-347 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56292: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Trigonopis anatona n. sp.
Trigonopis anatona n. sp. clam