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

• Paleocoordinates: 53.1° S, 139.7° W (Wright 2013)

• 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

Preservation: concretion

Collected by J. Haast in 1869

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 37089: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.03.2004, edited by Hallie Street and Franco Aspromonte

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