Where: New Zealand (41.4° S, 173.1° E: paleocoordinates 76.8° S, 159.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aperispirifer nelsonensis brachiopod zone, Stephens Formation, Changhsingian (254.0 - 252.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A. McKay

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1967. Upper Permian (Tatarian) brachiopods from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 10:74-118 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52753: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 19.08.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham