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Draft:Huriwai Measures Formation

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Hruiwai Measures Formation
Stratigraphic range: Tithonian
TypeGeologic Formation
Location
RegionNorth Island
Country New Zealand
ExtentWaikato region

The Huriwai Measures Formation is a geologic formation dating back to the Tithonian age of the Late Jurassic period Epoch. It lies in what is now New Zealand in the Waikato region on the North island. near the Waikato River. It is one of the two dinosaurs formations in New Zealand with the other being the Tahora formation from the Late Cretaceous.

Fossil content

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Indeterminate Compsognathid remains have been recovered from the formation.

Dinosaurs

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Saurischian
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Theropods
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Theropods recoverd from the Huriwai Measers Formation
genus species material Description notes image
Compsognathid? Indeterminate Phalanges and possible Coprolites it cant be identified for certain but the bones resemble a Compsognathid

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