New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics abstracts

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Late Cretaceous Cephalopoda (Mollusca) from the Takatika Grit, Chatham Islands, Southwest Pacific

Christopher P. Consoli¹
Jeffrey D. Stilwell^1,2

¹School of Geosciences
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia

²Centre for Evolutionary Research
Australian Museum
6 College Street
Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Abstract  Late Cretaceous (Lower Haumurian Stage; Campanian–Maastrichtian) cephalopods from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, are rare. The first report here of several large, fragmentary ammonites (Pachydiscus sp. cf. P. riccardi Macellari) and one partial nautiloid shell (Procymatoceras sp.) from shallow marine deposits of the Takatika Grit, northwest Chatham Island, strengthen the macroinvertebrate fossil record of this Southwest Pacific archipelago and New Zealand.

Keywords  fossil Cephalopoda; ammonite; Pachydiscus; nautiloid; Procymatoceras; Late Cretaceous; Chatham Islands; New Zealand

G04035; Received 13 August 2004; accepted 1 November 2004; Online publication date 3 June 2005
New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 2005, Vol. 48: 389–393
0028–8306/05/4802–0389© The Royal Society of New Zealand 2005

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