Locality R16/f8832, Marokopa (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (38.3° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 82.7° S, 52.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Captain Kings Shellbed, Middle Heterian, Murihiku Supergroup

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• Jurassic rocks of the Murihiku Supergroup represent estuarine and marine continental shelf sites of deposition.

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 56296: 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