Where: South Island, New Zealand (42.6° S, 173.5° E: paleocoordinates 58.5° S, 147.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Conway Formation (Eyre Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• New Zealand Stage nomenclature (Warren, 1995) places the Conway Siltstone at Haumuri Bluff in the lower Haumurian. Correlation with global Upper Cretaceous stages places the Haumuri Bluff section in the lower to middle Campanian; these correlations and age assessments are based on the indexing provided by dinoflagellates, inoceramids, and foraminiferans (Roncaglia and Schioler, 1997).
Environment/lithology: foreshore; poorly lithified, massive, bioturbated, gray, sandy siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• paddle bones, vertebrae and ribs
Preservation: concretion
Collected by H. H. Travers in 1871
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• DM R, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Primary reference: S. P. Welles and D. R. Gregg. 1971. Late Cretaceous marine reptiles of New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 9(1):1-111 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 232395: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 15.11.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur DM R 829 (paddle bones, vertebrae and ribs) (=specimen 8b of Hector, 1874)
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Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur DM R 1530 (dorsal vertebra) (=specimen 8c of Hector, 1874), DM R 1531 (eleven vertebrae) (=specimen 8f of Hector, 1874)
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