Also known as S68/314, 318-9, 766, 1254

Where: South Island, New Zealand (43.1° S, 172.6° E: paleocoordinates 56.4° S, 153.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Globotruncana circumnodifer foram zone, Conway Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• The lithology was defined by Webb (1966) as the Laidmore Formation, a term also used in Welles and Gregg (1971). Later Warren and Speden (1978, p. 25) proposed that the Laidmore Formation be considered as a unit of the Conway Siltstone (Warren and Speden 1978); this was subsequently modified and published as the Conway Formation (Browne and Field 1985) and is now widely accepted as such (Wilson et al. 2005). The material was collected 6 m below the top of the Conway Formation. Wilson et al. (2005) extracted a sample from the matrix surrounding the holotype of P. waiparaensis and recorded a microflora dominated by taxa such as Manumiella seelandica (Lange, 1969), Manumiella druggii (Stover, 1973), Fibrocysta bipolaris (Cookson and Eisenack, 1965) and Alterbidinium longicornutum Roncaglia and Schiøler, 1997, an assemblage that confirms a late Maastrichtian age, close to the Cretaceous ⁄ Palaeogene boundary.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Bunopas, S. Piyasin; reposited in the CM

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 106757: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 29.03.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham and Franco Aspromonte

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