Also known as GS339

Where: New Zealand (45.9° S, 168.5° E: paleocoordinates 78.2° S, 45.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: "Highest Spirifer Bed". Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Lower Temaikan = Aalenian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marinelithified

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: A. McKay, 1878. REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: C. A. Fleming. 1987. New Zealand Mesozoic Bivalves of the Superfamily Trigoniacea. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 53 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63729: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.08.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

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