Die Geologie von Neuseeland

Subgenera of the Upper Triassic bivalveMonotis

“…Subgenus Maorimonotis n.subgen, ETYMOLOGY: Maori, the Polynesian people of New Zealand, plus MonotiJ. The prefix also refers to the concept of a "Maorian Province" (Wilckens 1920) in Upper Triassic times covering New Zealand and New Caledonia, within which members of this subgenus are confined. TYPE SPECIES: Monotis routbieri Avias, 1953;Norian, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Figs 8, 9).…”

A historical survey of the pre-cretaceous geology of New Zealand

“…Metamorphism was presumed to have occurred in the Devonian Tuhuan orogeny, with the emplacement of vast granites, and folding in the Atawhenuan (Permian) orogenic episode, when the Clinton River diorites and gabbros of Fiordland, Longwood Mountains, Bluff, and Stewart Island were injected, followed by refolding during the early Cretaceous post-Hokonui Rangitata Orogeny. Benson (1921) in discussing what he called the Otago schists postulated a great series of recumbent folds (as did Wilckens, 1917), without any great difference in age from the unaltered Triassic and late Paleozoic sediments, thus explaining the low altitude and the absence of pebbles from the Mesozoic. In 1928 (p. 58), however, he ruled out the possibility of an early Mesozoic age.…”