Also known as N104/f909, Hawke's Bay
Where: Hawke's Bay, New Zealand (38.9° S, 176.8° E: paleocoordinates 58.9° S, 168.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maungataniwha Member (Tahora Formation), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• Upper layers of formation, age of layer is early Hamurian according to Eagle (1994), about 100 m above the Piripauan-Hamurian boundary.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified, bioturbated, concretionary, nodular, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
• NPC CD 425 an almost complete skull and NPC CD 426, detached left articular angular, quadrate, and squamosal, atlas-axis complex and seven successive cervical vertebrae 3r-9th of the same individual.
Preservation: concretion
Collected by M. A. and J. Wiffen, W. L. Moisley in 1978; reposited in the IGNS
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: I. W. Keyes. 1977. Records of the northern hemisphere Cretaceous sawfish genus Onchopristis (order Batoidea) from New Zealand. Journal of Geology and Geophysics 20(2):263-272 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 27887: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.01.2003, edited by Erin Leckey, Matthew Clapham, Chelsea Chan and Franco Aspromonte
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Torynomma planata n. sp.3
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Homolodromia novaezelandica n. sp.3
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Elasmosauridae indet.12 Cope 1869 elasmosaur NZGS CD432-435 (isolated vertebrae), NZGS CD438-439, 441 (pelvic elements), NZGS CD442-443 (partial skeletons), CD452,455 (isolated propodials), AM9122 (left femur), NZGS CP431, 444-449 (isolated vertebrae)
Tuarangisaurus keyesi n. gen. n. sp.12 Wiffen and Moisley 1986 elasmosaur NZGS CD425 (skull) and CD426 (cervical vertebrae, angular, quadrate, and squamosal)
aff. Tuarangisaurus keyesi12 Wiffen and Moisley 1986 elasmosaur NZGS CD428, pectoral girdle of a juvenil specimen
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Nodosauridae indet.11 Marsh 1890 ankylosaur CD 545, 546; proximal protion of anterior rib, two small vertebrae
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Actinopteri | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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Crinoidea | |
Isselicrinus mangahouangaensis n. sp.2
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