GS338, Otapiri Gorge, Southland (E45/f9441) (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as S169/441

Where: New Zealand (46.1° S, 168.5° E: paleocoordinates 76.6° S, 47.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Lower Temaikan (likely Toarcian based on range of spiriferinids in MacFarlan 2023).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, not stated in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology of lithification, not stated in text. Presumed to be lithified on the basis of age.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

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

Primary reference: G. R. Stevens. 1965. The Jurassic and Cretaceous Belemnites of New Zealand and a Review of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Belemnites of the Indo-Pacific Region. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 36 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63775: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.08.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Limited, however exhaustive, to taxonomic group covered in monograph (Trigoniacea). NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and use of subgeneric and species names. IDENTIFICATION: All older collections re-identified by G.R. Stevens and C.A. Fleming.
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp.1 Sowerby 1816 clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp.4 Meek 1865 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys (Camptochlamys) wunschae4 Marwick 1953 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
? Plicatula sp.1 Lamarck 1801 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula sp.1 Müller 1776
 Spiriferinida - Pennospiriferinidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae