NW Chatham, NPB: Maastrichtian - Danian, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Laurenti 1768
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Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Agnolin et al. 2010 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| GNS CD 578, reID from Theropoda indet. | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| GNS CD 583 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | New Zealand | State/province: | Chatham Islands Territory |
| Coordinates: | 43.8° South, 176.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 57.4° South, 140.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Key time interval: | Maastrichtian - Danian |
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Tioriori | Formation: | Takatika Grit | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "mixed K/T microfossils present" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic,phosphatic,volcaniclastic,shelly/skeletal silty sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "The Takatika Grist is a distinctive, thin, fossiliferous rock unit, a glauconitic quartzofeldspathic grit made up of sandstone and siltstones with a volcanogenic component"; "in association with phosphorites nodules" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | none |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 58497 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-02-09 11:28:13 | Last modified: | 2021-01-08 14:09:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-02-09 11:28:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 16596. | ETE,5% 64700 | J. D. Stilwell, C. P. Consoli, R. Sutherland, S. Salisbury, T. H. Rich, P. A. Vickers-Rich, P. J. Currie and G. J. Wilson. 2006. Dinosaur sanctuary on the Chatham Islands, southwest Pacific: first record of theropods from the K-T boundary Takatika Grit. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 230:243-250 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 32702 | ETE | F. L. Agnolin, M. D. Ezcurra, D. F. Pais and S. W. Salisbury. 2010. A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: evidence for their Gondwanan affinities. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8(2):257-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |