Where: New Zealand (40.1° S, 176.0° E: paleocoordinates 74.4° S, 95.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oretian (227.5 - 221.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected in 1978; reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: chemical

• Most of the block is in the Department of Geology, University of Auckland (collection AU6397). Some of the material is retained in the Department of Soil Science, Massey University (collection MU3), and some microfaunas and residues are held by the New Zealand Geological Survey, Lower Hutt (conodont sample no. CN694).

Primary reference: M. Marden, J. A. Simes, and H. J. Campbell. 1987. Two Mesozoic faunas from Torlesse melange terrane, (Ruahine Range), New Zealand, and new evidence for Oretian correlation. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 30:389-399 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137846: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.12.2012

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