Tuarangisaurus keyesi Wiffen and Moisley 1986 (elasmosaur)

Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae

Full reference: J. Wiffen and W. L. Moisley. 1986. Late Cretaceous reptiles (families Elasmosauridae and Pliosauridae) from the Mangahouanga Stream, North Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 29(2):205-252

Belongs to Tuarangisaurus according to R. A. Otero et al. 2018

See also Carpenter 1999, O'Gorman 2019, O'Gorman et al. 2017, Scanlon 2006 and Wiffen and Moisley 1986

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is GS11359, Mangahouanga Stream (V19/f6909), which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian shoreface sandstone in the Tahora Formation of New Zealand

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of New Zealand (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections including 4 occurrences

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