Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand abstracts

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Atractites guards from the Early Jurassic of New Zealand

A. B. Challinor*

Three specimens of Atractites aratauraensis n. sp. are described from the basal or Early Jurassic of southwest Auckland. They represent the first member of the family Xiphoteuthididae Naef, 1922, and the first complete aulacocerid guards known from New Zealand. All previously described New Zealand Aulacocerida are members of the family Aulacoceratidae Mojsisovics, 1882.

Keywords: Aulacocerida, Xiphoteuthididae, Atractites, Aratauran, Hettangian, Sinemurian, New Zealand.

(c) Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand,

Volume 26, Number 3, September 1996, pp 395-400

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