Where: Southland, New Zealand (45.8° S, 167.8° E: paleocoordinates 49.1° S, 165.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Notostrophia zealandicus brachiopod zone, Takitimu Group, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A.R. Mutch, C.A. Fleming, J.B. Waterhouse

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1963. Permian gastropods of New Zealand; Part 2, Pleurotomariacea (in part). New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 6:115-154 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41775: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.07.2004, edited by Leigh Fall