Where: New Zealand (38.5° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 82.1° S, 51.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kirikiri Group, Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; fine-grained, concretionary, calcareous sandstone and sandy siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: S. E. Damborenea and M. O. Mancenido. 1992. A comparison of Jurassic marine benthonic faunas from South America and New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 22(2):131-152 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38960: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 17.05.2004

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