†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, Otero et al. 2015 and Robinson et al. 2024
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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