Where: New Zealand (46.0° S, 168.5° E: paleocoordinates 70.9° S, 63.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Murihiku Group, Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by D.A.B. MacFarlan, J.G.G. Morton in 1980
• Repository: Otago University
Primary reference: D. A. B. MacFarlan and J. D. Campbell. 2003. Zeilleria spiculata, a new terebratulide brachiopod from the latest Triassic-earliest Jurassic of New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 33(1):213-221 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85016: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Zeilleria spiculata MacFarlan and Campbell 2003 |