Kaiwhekea katiki Cruickshank and Fordyce 2002 (elasmosaur)

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

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