Waimakariri River, opposite Otarama Railway Station (Cretaceous to of New Zealand)

Where: Canterbury, New Zealand (43.3° S, 171.9° E: paleocoordinates 55.8° S, 157.3° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian to Maastrichtian (72.1 - 56.0 Ma)

• “Lingula beds”

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary sandstone

• concretionary sandstone horizon

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. T. Ksepka and J. Cracraft. 2008. An avian tarsometatarsus from near the K-T boundary of New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1224-1227 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 189281: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 09.10.2017, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet.2
Mosasauridae indet.2 Gervais 1852 mosasaur
Aves
 Anseriformes - Vegaviidae
Vegaviidae indet.1
Vegaviidae indet.1 Agnolín et al. 2017 waterfowl
GS12287
Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet.2
Elasmosauridae indet.2 Cope 1869 elasmosaur
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
1Agnolín et al. 2017; 2Scanlon 2006