Age and provenance of cretaceous marine reptiles from the South Island and Chatham Islands, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 377-387

  Wilson, Graeme J ^a   Schiøler, Poul ^b   Hiller, Norton ^c,d   Jones, Craig M ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c CANTERBURY MUSEUM   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Campanian Stage; Chatham Islands; Dinoflagellates; Haumurian Stage; Maastrichtian Stage; Marine reptiles; Marlborough; New Zealand; North Canterbury; Northeast Otago; South Island; Upper Cretaceous

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; REPTILE;

AUSTRALASIA; CHATHAM ISLAND; CHATHAM ISLANDS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH ISLAND; WORLD;

ALTERBIDINIUM; DINOPHYCEAE; MANUMIELLA; REPTILIA;

EID: 22944446747     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2005.9515120     Document Type: Article

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