Where: New Zealand (45.8° S, 168.0° E: paleocoordinates 71.0° S, 161.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Terrakea concava brachiopod zone, Letham Formation, Kungurian (279.5 - 272.5 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, J.B. Waterhouse

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1963. Permian gastropods of New Zealand; Part 3, Pleurotomariacea (concluded). New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 6:587-622 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52771: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 19.08.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham