New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics abstracts

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Early Paleocene marine vertebrates from the Wangaloa Formation, South Island, New Zealand

Lucas A. Buchanan¹

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   Early Paleocene vertebrate material from the Wangaloa Formation, South Island, comprises newly discovered remains of turtles, chimaeroids, and a probable myliobatid. This is the first report of non-chondrichthyan vertebrate material from this formation and the earliest known Cenozoic chimaeroid from New Zealand. The material helps to deduce the composition of vertebrate assemblages during the biotic stabilisation phase a few million years after the K-Pg mass extinction event c. 65 Ma.

Keywords   Chelonioidea; Chimaeroidei; myliobatid; Paleocene; Wangaloa Formation; New Zealand

G06026; Online publication date 2 March 2007; Received 6 August 2006; accepted 30 January 2007

New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 2007, Vol. 50: 33 - 37
0028 - 8306/07/5001 - 0033    © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2007

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