JDC 2215, Caroline Cutting, Oreti valley (E44/f9538) (Triassic of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (45.8° S, 168.4° E: paleocoordinates 73.0° S, 157.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: North Etal Group, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Late Anisian (Etalian); Murihiku Supergroup; 475 m below the top of the North Etal Group

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified siltstone

• weathered, dark-coloured, coarse-grained siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J.D. Campbell

• Repository: Otago University

Primary reference: D. A. B. MacFarlan. 1992. Triassic and Jurassic Rhynchonellacea (Brachiopoda) from New Zealand and New Caledonia. Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 31:1-310 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60990: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.05.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Norellidae