†Kaiwhekea katiki Cruickshank and Fordyce 2002 (elasmosaur)
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Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Full reference: A. R. I. Cruickshank and R. E. Fordyce. 2002. A new marine reptile (Sauropterygia) from New Zealand: further evidence for a Late Cretaceous Austral radiation of cryptoclidid plesiosaurs. Palaeontology 45(3):557-575
Belongs to Kaiwhekea according to J. P. O'Gorman et al. 2019
See also Cruickshank and Fordyce 2002, O'Gorman 2019 and Otero et al. 2015
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: OU 12649, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Shag Point, which is in a Haumurian deltaic siltstone in the Katiki Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Shag Point
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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