Backyards Road cutting (S117/f754) (Triassic of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (44.7° S, 170.2° E: paleocoordinates 72.2° S, 153.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Long Gully Formation (Corbies Creek Group), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• "Kaihikuan local stage" (Retallack 1981)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: New Zealand Geological Survey

Primary reference: G. J. Retallack. 1981. Middle Triassic megafossil plants from Long Gully, near Otematata, north Otago, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 11(3):167-200 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207622: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 22.01.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
  -
Voltziopsida
 Voltziales - Voltziaceae
Telemachus lignosus n. sp. Retallack 1981
B1087.3 & .4 (holotype; part and counterpart)
 Coniferales -
Desmiophyllum sp. Lesquereux 1878
Pinopsida
 Pinales -
Polypodiopsida
  - Osmundaceae
Todites maoricus n. sp. Retallack 1981
B1087.40 (holotype)
  -
Cladophlebis cf. takezakii Oishi 1940
B1087.21
Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales -
  -
Peltaspermopsida
 Peltaspermales - Matatiellaceae
Townrovia petasata Townrow 1965
B1087.24
 Peltaspermales - Peltaspermaceae