Where: Southland, New Zealand (46.1° S, 169.2° E: paleocoordinates 76.3° S, 176.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Plekonella multicostata brachiopod zone, "AG 4" Formation (Arthurton Group), Wuchiapingian (259.0 - 254.0 Ma)

• Plekonella multicostata Zone of "Chhidruan Substage" - correlated to Chhidru Formation and Wuchiapingian (upper Wuchiapingian?) in recent papers.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by B.L. Wood, J.B. Waterhouse

• Collected by B.L. Wood and re-collected by Waterhouse

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1963. Etheripecten, a new aviculopectinid genus from the Permian. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 6:193-196 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39926: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.06.2004, edited by Leigh Fall