NW Chatham, Greensand II: Maastrichtian - Danian, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Dinosauria
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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= Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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Agnolin et al. 2010 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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cf. Ornithomimosauria indet.
Barsbold 1976
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1 specimen | |||||||||
GNS CD 579 | ||||||||||
= Coelurosauria indet.
Huene 1914
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Agnolin et al. 2010 | |||||||||
Neotheropoda indet.
Bakker 1986
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1 specimen | |||||||||
GNS CD 580 | ||||||||||
= ? Enantiornithes indet.
Walker 1981
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Agnolin et al. 2010 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Selachii
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Selachii indet.
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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% 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] |