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  2. List of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of New Zealand

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    The Ross Dependency, unlike the Chatham Islands, is not actually part of New Zealand, and this is why it is excluded from the list above until sufficient evidence shows that it entered what was the sector of Gondwana that is now New Zealand. Newer fossils from a Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary fossil formation known as the Takatika Grit in the ...

  3. Joan Wiffen - Wikipedia

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    In 1975 Wiffen discovered the first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand in the Mangahouanga Valley in Northern Hawkes Bay. Her first discovery was the tail bone of a theropod dinosaur. Her later finds included bones from a hypsilophodont, a pterosaur, an ankylosaur, mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. [2]

  4. Compsognathidae - Wikipedia

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    A compsognathid specimen consisting of a single finger bone has been described from Late Jurassic (Tithonian Age, about 150 million years ago) sediments at Port Waikato, New Zealand. It is the first and so far, only dinosaur specimen known from Jurassic New Zealand, as well as being the first New Zealand dinosaur fossil to have been found ...

  5. Tuatara - Wikipedia

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    There is a brand of New Zealand craft beer named after the Tuatara which particularly references the third eye in its advertising. [129] In the season one finale of Abbott Elementary [130] an old tuatara named Duster is used to represent themes of ageing and transition. In the 2023 animated movie Leo, the main character is a tuatara named Leo.

  6. List of fossil sites - Wikipedia

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    Dinosaur fossil, Riverine animals: fish, turtles, crocodilians, birds Ngandong (Bengawan Solo River) ... New Zealand: Southland (The Catlins) Petrified forest:

  7. St Bathans fauna - Wikipedia

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    In 2016 Vanesa De Pietri was awarded a Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fast Start grant to study the shorebird fossils. [12] This long-running (since 2000) collaborative research programme also includes scientists from the University of New South Wales in Sydney and from the University of Queensland in Brisbane. [10]

  8. The fossils, estimated to date back 90 million years, were part of a new dinosaur species previously unknown in East Asia. It’s unclear how long Port Island will remain closed to visitors.

  9. Kumimanu - Wikipedia

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    The fossils were found by a group of researchers from New Zealand in Otago, on the South Island of New Zealand. The fossils are from the Paleocene Waipara Greensand formation. The fossils were studied by a New Zealand and German team, led by Gerald Mayr of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum.

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