Where: Southland, New Zealand (46.1° S, 169.2° E: paleocoordinates 76.3° S, 178.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Martiniopsis woodi brachiopod zone, AG4 Formation (Arthurton Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Martiniopsis woodi Zone of "Kalabaghian Substage" - correlated to Wuchiapingian in recent papers.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by J.B. Waterhouse, T.J. Barrett in 1972
Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1976. New occurrences of brachiopod and bivalve species from the Arthurton Group of South Otago and Southland, New Zealand with comments on structure and stratigraphy. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 6(2):227-252 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39924: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.06.2004, edited by Leigh Fall
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Filiconcha sp. Dear 1969 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Martiniopsis woodi Waterhouse 1964 | |
"Neospirifer arthurtonensis" = Simplicisulcus arthurtonensis
"Neospirifer arthurtonensis" = Simplicisulcus arthurtonensis Waterhouse 1968 | |
Lamnaespina transennata Waterhouse 1976 |