Where: New Zealand (39.0° S, 176.8° E: paleocoordinates 59.0° S, 168.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Maungataniwha Member (Tahora Formation), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• upper layers of formation, age of layer is Haumurian/Piripauan
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. A. Otero, J. P. O'Gorman, W. L. Moisley, M. Terezow, and J. A. W. McKee. 2018. A juvenile Tuarangisaurus keyesi Wiffen and Moisley 1986 (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of New Zealand, with remarks on its skull ontogeny. Cretaceous Research 85:214-231 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/F. Aspromonte]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 208367: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.04.2020, edited by Franco Aspromonte
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