Boatlanding Bay, H46/f233, South Otago (Jurassic to of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (46.4° S, 169.5° E: paleocoordinates 77.9° S, 41.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Boatlanding Bay Formation, Aalenian to Aalenian (174.1 - 168.4 Ma)

• uppermost Omaru Faormation and part of Boatlanding Bay Formation; Early Temaikan, Murihiku Supergroup

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, gray, silty mudstone and lithified, fine-grained sandstone

• middle to outer shelf environment
• series of medium grey silty mudstone and less common fine grained greywacke beds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. N. Gardner and H. J. Campbell. 1997. The bivalve genus Grammatodon from the Middle Jurassic of the Catlins district, South Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 40:487-498 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56398: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 18.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) obscurus n. sp.
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Retroceramus sp.
Retroceramus sp. Koschelkina 1958 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Neocrassina sp.
Neocrassina sp. Fischer 1887 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya milleformis
Pleuromya milleformis Marwick 1953 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Tetorimya sp.
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Cylindroteuthis sp.