Dipton Stream (E44/f8637), Taringatura Hills (Triassic of New Zealand)

Where: Southland, New Zealand (45.8° S, 168.2° E: paleocoordinates 72.7° S, 72.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Murihiku Group, Warepan (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• lower Monotis shellbed in sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: University of Otago

Primary reference: J. D. Campbell. 1991. A Late Triassic spiriferinacean brachiopod (family Laballidae) from the Taringatura Hills, Southland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 34:359-363 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85010: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.11.2008, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria hectori Trechmann 1917 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Monotis (Eomonotis) sp. Grant-Mackie 1978 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spondylospiridae
Zugmayerella taringaturaensis n. sp. Campbell 1991