The first Late Cretaceous turtles from New Zealand
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
- Vol. 24 (2) , 293-299
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.1981.10422718
Abstract
The presence of turtles in the Upper Cretaceous rocks of New Zealand is indicated by the recent discovery of several disarticulated plastron and carapace fragments. These bones, of Piripauan-Haumurian age (Campanian-Maastrichtian|Late Cretaceous), are identified as Protostegidae sp. indet. and appear to be the first record of this family in the southern hemisphere.Keywords
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