Where: Southland, New Zealand (45.9° S, 168.0° E: paleocoordinates 74.6° S, 173.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Spinomartinia spinosa brachiopod zone, Nemo Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the IGNS
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• Specimens held by New Zealand Geological Survey
Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse and A. R. Mutch. 1978. Description and paleoecology of Permian brachiopods from the Nemo Formation near Ohai, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 21:517-530 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 73851: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 04.07.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
Articulata | |
Strophomenata | |
Capillonia brevisulcus Waterhouse 1964 mixture of mature and immature valves, and a few whole specimens
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Horridonia sp. n. sp.
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Rhynchonellata | |
"Spiriferinacea indet." = Spiriferinoidea
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? Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919 three mature and two immature ventral valves and a fragment s small dorsal valve
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Tomiopsis isbelliformis n. sp.
Tomiopsis isbelliformis n. sp. Waterhouse and Mutch 1978 11 mature ventral vvalves, three smaller ventral valves, two mature dorsal valves and one immature dorsal valve
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Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Bivalvia | |
Atomodesma sp. Beyrich 1865 clam |