Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae

Full reference: W. B. Benham. 1935. A reptilian jaw from Kakanui, South Island, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 65:232-238

Belongs to Tangaroasaurus according to R. E. Fordyce and C. D. Roberts 2009

See also Benham 1935, Fordyce 1979, Fordyce 1980, Fordyce 1991 and Keyes 1973

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: OU C.03.18 GL426, a mandible. Its type locality is All Day Bay, which is in a Langhian marine claystone in the Gee Greensand Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at All Day Bay

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.