ammonites
E45/f9447 - Flag Hill, Southland (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 344; S169/0447

Where: New Zealand (46.0° S, 168.5° E: paleocoordinates 72.1° S, 61.3° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aratauran (201.6 - 189.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: "Upper Plagiostoma beds". Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Aratauran = Hettangian to earliest Pliensbachian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marinelithified

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, not stated in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology of lithification, not stated in text. Presumed to be lithified on the basis of age and figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

• COLLECTOR: A. McKay, 1878. REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: J. Marwick. 1953. Divisions and faunas of the Hokonui System (Triassic and Jurassic). New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 21 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63821: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.08.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

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