The Katiki Formation is a Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian, or Haumurian in the regional stratigraphy) geologic formation of the South Island of New Zealand.[1] Plesiosaur remains of Kaiwhekea katiki, named after the formation, are among the fossils that have been recovered from the deltaic siltstones.
The KatikiFormation is a Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian, or Haumurian in the regional stratigraphy) geologic formation of the South Island...
around 70-69 million years ago. The single known specimen, found in the KatikiFormation near Shag Point on the coast of Otago, is nearly complete, and is on...
Geologically, the area is an exemplar of the KatikiFormation, and the site of the discovery of the plesiosaur Kaiwhekea katiki. It is also the location of the oldest...
New Zealand. Newer fossils from a Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary fossil formation known as the Takataka Grit in the Chatham Islands include six or seven...
85 m (7.3–9.4 ft). A series of neck vertebrae from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation indicate a pliosaur, probably Pliosaurus, that may have been up to 14...
diameter, and almost spherical. Similar boulder-size concretions, known as Katiki Boulders, are also found on the north-facing shore of Shag Point some 19...
that a Morrison pterosaur has been found at more than one site in the formation. Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past:...
specimen of Futabasaurus was found in the Irimazawa Member of the Tamayama Formation, in the Futaba Group of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The rocks in which...
from the Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian stage) Snow Hill Island Formation of Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula. It contains a single species, Vegasaurus...
known from the Late Cretaceous (middle upper Campanian stage) Bearpaw Formation of Alberta, Canada. It contains a single species, Albertonectes vanderveldei...
It was collected from the Maungataniwha Sandstone Member of the Tahora Formation, dating to the upper Campanian to lower Maastrichtian stage of the Late...
from the Cape Lamb Member (lower Maastrichtian) of the Snow Hill Island Formation, Vega Island, Antarctica, and remarks on Wedellian Elasmosauridae". Journal...
the battery was equipped with the warheads. Neva was near with volcano Katiki and Cape Roggeven. From the board, the crew could clearly see moai and cultivated...
maneuverable. 2002 Cruickshank and Fordyce described the new species Kaiwhekea katiki. Druckenmiller described the new species Edgarosaurus muddi. Michael Everhart...
fauna of the Kawas sea (which spans both the Allen Formation and the contemporary La Colonia Formation) contains all three major lineages of Late Cretaceous...
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