NW Chatham, Greensand II: Maastrichtian - Danian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Dinosauria
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
    = Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Agnolin et al. 2010
Reptilia
cf. Ornithomimosauria indet. Barsbold 1976
1 specimen
GNS CD 579
    = Coelurosauria indet. Huene 1914
Agnolin et al. 2010
Neotheropoda indet. Bakker 1986
1 specimen
GNS CD 580
    = ? Enantiornithes indet. Walker 1981
Agnolin et al. 2010
Chondrichthyes - Selachii
Selachii indet.
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,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";
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:58498
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-02-09 11:39:59 Last modified:2021-01-08 14:09:38
Access level:the public Released:2006-02-09 11:39:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

16596.ETE,5% 64700J. 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:

32702ETE 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]