Also known as Amuri Bluff

Where: South Island, New Zealand (42.6° S, 173.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 53.2° S, 139.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Conway Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.2 Ma)

• Hiller et al. (2005):

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•The vast majority of reptilian remains reported from North Canterbury have come from the Conway Formation, especially from exposures at Haumuri Bluff and along the Waipara River...

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•The name Conway Formation is currently applied to those stratigraphic units that have in the past been called the ‘Boulder Sands’ (Hector, 1874; McKay, 1877), ‘Concretionary Sands’ (Mason, 1941), ‘Laidmore Formation’ (Webb, 1966; 1971; Wells and Gregg, 1971), ‘Saurian Beds’ (McKay, 1877; Thomson, 1920; Wellman, 1959; Wilson, 1963), ‘Saurian Sands’ (Haast, 1871a; Wilson, 1963), ‘Septaria Clays’ (Haast, 1871b), and ‘Sulphur Sands’ (Hector, 1874; Thomson, 1920; Mason, 1941; Wilson, 1963). More detailed descriptions and synonymies of the Conway Formation can be found in Warren and Speden (1978), Browne and Field (1985), Andrews et al. (1987) and Warren (1995)...

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•In part, the revision of

•Haumurian correlation is based on the development of a refined biostratigraphic subdivision of the New Zealand Upper Cretaceous founded on dinoflagellates (Roncaglia and Schiøler, 1997; Schiøler and Wilson, 1998; Roncaglia et al., 1999). Application of this biostratigraphic scheme to the Conway Formation shows it to range from middle Campanian at Haumuri Bluff to upper Maastrichtian at Waipara River (Roncaglia and Schiøler, 1997; Roncaglia et al., 1999)

Environment/lithology: basinal (); massive, concretionary, gray, silty, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by McKay, Haast, H. Travers in 1869, 1871

Primary reference: J. Hector. 1874. On the fossil Reptilia of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 6:333-358 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 101382: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 21.12.2010, edited by Mark Uhen and Matthew Clapham

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