Mauisaurus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Plesiosauroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Archelosauria Superordo: †Sauropterygia Ordo: †Plesiosauria Subordo: Plesiosauroidea

Familia: †Elasmosauridae
Genus: Mauisaurus
Species (1): M. haasti

Name

• Mauisaurus Hector, 1874
  • Gender: masculine
  • Type species: Mauisaurus haasti Hector, 1874
    • Fixation: subsequent designation by Kuhn (1935: 100)

References

• Hector, J. 1874: On the fossil Reptilia of New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 6: 333–358, plates XXVII-XXXI.
• Otero, R.A.; Soto-Acuña, S.; Rubilar-Rogers, D. 2010: Presence of the elasmosaurid plesiosaur Mauisaurus in the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Central Chile. Acta palaeontologica polonica, 55: 361–364. DOI: 10.4202/app.2009.0065
• Occurrence of a young elasmosaurid plesiosaur skeleton from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Antarctica.

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus

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