Chris M. Mays,^1,*,** Jeffrey D. Stilwell<sup>1,***

1</sup>School of Geosciences, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia

^*Corresponding author. Email: chris.mays@monash.edu
^**CHRIS M. MAYS is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Geosciences, Monash University. He graduated with honours from the University of Melbourne in 2007, where he studied geology and micropalaeontologv. His current research is the palynology, palaeobotany and sedimentology of the Mid Cretaceous Chatham Islands sequence, the Tupuangi Formation. His research interests are in Cretaceous south polar palaeoenvironmental reconstructions as well as floral evolution and diversification.
^***JEFFREY D. STILWELL is a research scientist at Monash University, specialising in high southern latitude Cretaceous and Palaeogene biostratigraphy of macro- and microbiotas. He is the author of five books/monographs and 60 papers on the above subject. He received his MSc from Purdue University, USA and his Ph.D. from Otago University, New Zealand. At Monash University, he is Associate Professor and the Leader of the Applied Palaeontology and Basin Studies Group.