Oroua Valley, Ruahine Range (Triassic of New Zealand)

Where: Wellington, New Zealand (40.0° S, 176.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 70.4° S, 86.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Warepan (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone and lithified siltstone

• argillite-calcareous greywacke and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. D. G. Milne and J. D. Campbell. 1969. Upper Triassic fossils from Oroua Valley, Ruahine Range, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Geology 6(18):247-250 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85018: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.11.2008, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Monotis (Entomonotis) ochotica richmondiana, Monotis ochotica pachypleura, Monotis ochotica gigantea, "Monotis (Entomonotis) routhieri" = Monotis (Maorimonotis) routhieri, "? Monotis calvata" = Monotis (Eomonotis) calvata
"Monotis (Entomonotis) routhieri" = Monotis (Maorimonotis) routhieri Avias 1953 scallop
"? Monotis calvata" = Monotis (Eomonotis) calvata Marwick 1953 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Halorellidae
Halorella ruahinensis n. sp.