The Tahora Formation is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation that outcrops in northeastern New Zealand near Napier.[2][3] It is Haumurian in age according to the New Zealand geologic time scale (mainly Campanian, but ranging from Santonian to lower Maastrichtian). It forms part of the Upper Cretaceous to Teurian (Danian) (lower Paleocene) Tinui Group. It unconformably overlies the Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Urewera Group or the Upper Cretaceous Matawai Group. It is conformably overlain by the Haumurian to Teurian Whangai Formation. It consist of three members, the Maungataniwha Sandstone Member, the Mutuera Member and the Houpapa Member.[1] It is named for Tahora Station, south of Matawai in the Gisborne Region. The aptly named Maungataniwha (Māori for "mountain of monsters") Sandstone Member is known for its rich reptile fossil remains, first investigated by amateur palaeontologist Joan Wiffen.
^ abIsaac M.J., Moore P.R. & Joass Y.J. (1991). "Tahora Formation: The basal facies of a Late Cretaceous transgressive sequence, northeastern New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 34 (2): 227–236. doi:10.1080/00288306.1991.9514460.
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^Vajda V. & Raine J.I. (2010). "A palynological investigation of plesiosaur-bearing rocks from the Upper Cretaceous Tahora Formation, Mangahouanga, New Zealand". Alcheringa. 34 (3): 359–374. doi:10.1080/03115518.2010.486642.
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which can be grouped into 'members', members are grouped into 'formations', formations into 'subgroups' then 'groups'. In New Zealand, groups are further...
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the village remained the terminus of the line until it was extended to Tahora on 16 December 1895. This line ultimately terminated in Tahakopa and was...
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