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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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