Where: New Zealand (46.6° S, 169.5° E: paleocoordinates 74.2° S, 52.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Otekura Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)
• Early Ururoan
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by R.K. Bearlin in 11, 1985
• Repository: Otago University
Primary reference: R. K. Bearlin. 1986. First record of Lytoceras (Ammonoidea) from the South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 29:269-271 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137848: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pseudaucella marshalli Trechmann 1923 pearl oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite |