Where: New Zealand (45.8° S, 168.4° E: paleocoordinates 71.3° S, 148.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pears Formation (Taringatura Group), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Late Ladinian; Kaihikuan.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A. McKay; reposited in the IGNS

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 60997: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.05.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

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