Mangahouanga Stream, Te Hoe River (V19/f6508A) (Cretaceous to of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (39.0° S, 176.8° E: paleocoordinates 59.0° S, 168.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maungataniwha Member (Tahora Formation), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• upper layers of formation, age of layer is Haumurian/Piripauan

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. A. Otero, J. P. O'Gorman, W. L. Moisley, M. Terezow, and J. A. W. McKee. 2018. A juvenile Tuarangisaurus keyesi Wiffen and Moisley 1986 (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of New Zealand, with remarks on its skull ontogeny. Cretaceous Research 85:214-231 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/F. Aspromonte]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208367: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.04.2020, edited by Franco Aspromonte

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur
NZGS CD456 (isolated gastralia)
Tuarangisaurus keyesi Wiffen and Moisley 1986 elasmosaur
NZGS CD427 (incomplete juvenil skeleton)