Where: New Zealand (46.4° S, 169.8° E: paleocoordinates 75.1° S, 127.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Port Molyneux Siltstone Formation (Willsher Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Kaihikuan local stage. Most likely Carnian according to new correlation scheme of Cooper et al. (2004)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified siltstone and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. D. Campbell, D. S. Coombs, and A. Grebneff. 2003. Willsher Group and geology of the Triassic Kaka Point coastal section, south-east Otago, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 33(1):7-38 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61462: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.06.2006

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