Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Major global change: framework for the modern world
- 2 Carboniferous-to-Triassic evolution of the Panthalassan margin in southern South America
- 3 Permian and Triassic geologic events in Sonora, northwestern Mexico
- 4 Advances in the correlation of the Permian
- 5 Examples of late Hercynian transtensional tectonics in the Southern Alps (Italy)
- 6 Succession of selected bioevents in the continental Permian of the Southern Alps (Italy): improvements in intrabasinal and interregional correlations
- 7 Permian chronostratigraphic subdivisions and events in China
- 8 Indosinian Tectogeny in the geological correlation of Vietnam and adjacent regions
- 9 Sitsa flora from the Permian of South Primorye
- 10 Late Permian bimodal volcanism in South Primorye
- 11 Syngenetic and epigenetic mineral deposits in Permian and Triassic sequences of the Primorye region
- 12 The mid-Permian: major changes in geology, environment, and faunas and some evolutionary implications
- 13 Variations in the disappearance patterns of rugosan corals in Tethys and their implications for environments at the end of the Permian
- 14 Fluctuations in pelagic environments near the Permian–Triassic boundary in the Mino-Tamba Terrane, southwest Japan
- 15 Late Changxingian ammonoids, bivalves, and brachiopods in South Primorye
- 16 Radiolaria from Permian–Triassic boundary beds in cherty deposits of Primorye (Sikhote-Alin)
- 17 Early Mesozoic magmatism in the Russian Far East
- 18 Transgressive conodont faunas of the early Triassic: an opportunity for correlation in the Tethys and the circum-Pacific
- 19 Triassic biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography of East Asia
- 20 Classification and correlation of Triassic limestones in Sikhote-Alin on the basis of corals
- 21 Evolution of the platform elements of the conodont genus Metapolygnathus and their distribution in the Upper Triassic of Sikhote-Alin
- 22 Late Triassic North American halobiid bivalves: diversity trends and circum-Pacific correlations
- 23 Upper Triassic Chinle Group, Western United States: a nonmarine standard for late Triassic time
- 24 Otapirian Stage: its fauna and microflora
- 25 Upper Palaeozoic glaciation and Carboniferous and Permian faunal changes in Argentina
- Index
24 - Otapirian Stage: its fauna and microflora
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Major global change: framework for the modern world
- 2 Carboniferous-to-Triassic evolution of the Panthalassan margin in southern South America
- 3 Permian and Triassic geologic events in Sonora, northwestern Mexico
- 4 Advances in the correlation of the Permian
- 5 Examples of late Hercynian transtensional tectonics in the Southern Alps (Italy)
- 6 Succession of selected bioevents in the continental Permian of the Southern Alps (Italy): improvements in intrabasinal and interregional correlations
- 7 Permian chronostratigraphic subdivisions and events in China
- 8 Indosinian Tectogeny in the geological correlation of Vietnam and adjacent regions
- 9 Sitsa flora from the Permian of South Primorye
- 10 Late Permian bimodal volcanism in South Primorye
- 11 Syngenetic and epigenetic mineral deposits in Permian and Triassic sequences of the Primorye region
- 12 The mid-Permian: major changes in geology, environment, and faunas and some evolutionary implications
- 13 Variations in the disappearance patterns of rugosan corals in Tethys and their implications for environments at the end of the Permian
- 14 Fluctuations in pelagic environments near the Permian–Triassic boundary in the Mino-Tamba Terrane, southwest Japan
- 15 Late Changxingian ammonoids, bivalves, and brachiopods in South Primorye
- 16 Radiolaria from Permian–Triassic boundary beds in cherty deposits of Primorye (Sikhote-Alin)
- 17 Early Mesozoic magmatism in the Russian Far East
- 18 Transgressive conodont faunas of the early Triassic: an opportunity for correlation in the Tethys and the circum-Pacific
- 19 Triassic biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography of East Asia
- 20 Classification and correlation of Triassic limestones in Sikhote-Alin on the basis of corals
- 21 Evolution of the platform elements of the conodont genus Metapolygnathus and their distribution in the Upper Triassic of Sikhote-Alin
- 22 Late Triassic North American halobiid bivalves: diversity trends and circum-Pacific correlations
- 23 Upper Triassic Chinle Group, Western United States: a nonmarine standard for late Triassic time
- 24 Otapirian Stage: its fauna and microflora
- 25 Upper Palaeozoic glaciation and Carboniferous and Permian faunal changes in Argentina
- Index
Summary
Classification of Lower Mesozoic strata in New Zealand began with the work of Ferdinand von Hochstetter. A geologist with European experience, he recognized Monotis in the field in 1859, and it was his material, collected on a South Island expedition near Nelson, that provided the basis for the variety richmondiana of Monotis salinaria that was described as new by K. A. von Zittel in 1864 – the M. (Entomonotis) richmondiana of later writing.
In an 1864 publication, Hochstetter compared and effectively correlated New Zealand Monotis-bearing strata with the Hallstätt Beds of the Austrian Alps, which in turn were considered to be the lateral equivalents of the Upper Triassic of the Germanic succession (Hochstetter, 1959).
In an early attempt to arrange New Zealand fossiliferous strata in order of age, James Hector (1870) introduced the term “Otapiri Series” for Triassic strata and by 1878 was citing an “Otapiri Series, Upper Trias (Rhaetic)” (Hector, 1878, p. vii). Cox (1878) published a description of Triassic and Jurassic strata in the Hokonui Hills, Southland, that year, noting for the Otapiri Series that “the series [is] either Lower Lias or Rhaetic” (p. 44). The term “Rhaetic” had been used in European writing since 1861. Correlation of the Otapiri Series with the Rhaetic was important. There was considerable agreement in the Old World as to what constituted the Rhaetic, even though the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic systems was drawn variously at its upper and lower limits.
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