ammonites
H46/f8822A - Oamaru Fm, Otago (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as OU15242

Where: New Zealand (46.4° S, 169.8° E: paleocoordinates 77.3° S, 43.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oamaru Formation, Aalenian (175.6 - 171.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Oamaru Formation. AGE: Lower Temaikan = Aalenian.

• 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.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: D.AB. MacFarlan, 1980. REPOSITORY: Presumably the University of Otago (OU), Dunedin, New Zealand.

Primary reference: C. A. Fleming. 1987. New Zealand Mesozoic Bivalves of the Superfamily Trigoniacea. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 53 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63738: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.08.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

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