Where: New Zealand (40.7° S, 172.5° E: paleocoordinates 12.8° N, 169.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Slaty Creek Formation, Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• Formation not state: I'm inferring Slaty Creek based on the local stratigraphy

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified limestone and fine-grained sandstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTOR: Collected by E. O'Fee. REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science), Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Primary reference: Y. Y. Zhen, I. G. Percival, R. A. Cooper, J. E. SImes, and A. J. Wright. 2009. Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) conodonts from Thompson Creek, Nelson Province, New Zealand. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 37:25-53 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210508: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 02.06.2020

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