GS4533, Arthurton (F45/f9546) (Permian of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (46.1° S, 169.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 84.8° S, 124.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Plekonella multicostata brachiopod zone, Arthurton Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone and lithified mudstone

• The Arthurton facies approached those of normal shelf carbonates so common in the Northern Hemisphere, with quiet conditions of steady accumulation of silt and calcilutite, interrupted by brief standstills.
• As a rule the sediment consists of calcareous siltstone and mustone, locally skeletal micrites, with numerous atomodesmid prisms, interleaved with fenestellid Bryozoa to varying degrees.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by B.L. Wood

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1963. Etheripecten, a new aviculopectinid genus from the Permian. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 6:193-196 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52696: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 16.08.2005

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten striatura
Etheripecten striatura Waterhouse 1963 scallop
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Streblochondria orbiculata2
Streblochondria orbiculata2 Waterhouse 1982 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Attenuatella incurvata1
Attenuatella incurvata1 Waterhouse 1964
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Lissochonetes brevisulcus" = Capillonia brevisulcus1
"Lissochonetes brevisulcus" = Capillonia brevisulcus1 Waterhouse 1964
1Waterhouse 1964; 2Waterhouse 1982