The cretaceous-tertiary boundary in New Zealand

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Abstract
The succession of fossils across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in New Zealand is similar to that described in most other parts of the world. The Haumurian Stage is marked by a typically Maestrichtian Foraminiferal and nanoplankton fauna and by the highest occurrences of belemnites, arnmonites, and Inoceramus. The Teurian (Daniarr-Montian) is within the zone of Globigerina triloculinoides Plummer; the affinities of Teurian benthic Foraminifera are about equally balanced between Cretaceous and Tertiary. Keeled Globorotalia (aff. velascoensis and Discoaster multi-radlatus, typical of the Upper Paleocene, appear in the Waipawan Stage. The New Zealand Geological Survey is following, in its 1 :250,000 geological maps of New Zealand, the increasing world trend towards classifying Danian as Tertiary. The Teurian Stage is therefore now included in the Tertiary in the legend and has been transferred from the Mata to the Dannevirke Series with the new symbol Dt.