Where: New Zealand (44.2° S, 176.2° W: paleocoordinates 60.6° S, 132.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kahuitara Tuff Formation (Pitt Island Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Pitt Island Group includes Kahuitara Tuff, Southern Volcanics, and an unamed Haumurian limestone. The Kahuitara Tuff rests unconformably upon the Tupuangi Formation and passes into the Southern Volcanics without disconformity. THICKNESS: Maximum thickness of 225 m. AGE: Early Haumurian. To avoid orphaning the collection is placed into the Campanian (=early Haumurian)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, tuffaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown abbreviations (MAC, 1977). REPOSITORY: Presumably reposited in the New Zealand Geological Survey collections (now GNS Science), Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Primary reference: H. J. Campbell, P. B. Andrews, A. G. Beu, P. A. Maxwell, A. R. Edwards, M. G. Laird, N. deB Hornibrook, D. C. Mildenhall, W. A. Watters, J. S. Buckeridge, D. E. Lee, C. P. Strong, G. J. Wilson and B. W. Hayward. 1993. Cretaceous-Cenozoic geology and biostratigraphy of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Monograph 2:1-269 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63093: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.08.2006

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