Where: North Island, New Zealand (38.3° S, 174.7° E: paleocoordinates 72.5° S, 101.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Newcastle Group, Oretian (227.5 - 221.0 Ma)

• "Oretian Stage, 350 ft above lowest Halobia." - rocks now assigned to Newcastle Group

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

• "It might be part of a limb bone of a stereospondylous amphibian (such as those known from the Triassic of New South Wales) or a propodial of a plesiosaur. Of the latter, one from the Rhaetic of Redlands, Bristol, would supply a closely similar section.

•The closest resemblance between the distribution of canals and general features in a thin section of the bone is found in the section of a rob of a Liassic Plesiosaurus."

Collected by J. D. Campbell, D. S. Coombs in Feb. 1954; reposited in the OU

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: J. D. Campbell. 1965. New Zealand Triassic saurians. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 8(3):505-509 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 106319: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 09.03.2011

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