Tuarangisaurus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Incertae sedis Plesiosauroidea

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Familia: Elasmosauridae
Genus: Tuarangisaurus
Species (2): T. keyesi – ?T. cabazai

Name

• Tuarangisaurus Wiffen & Moisley, 1986
  • Gender: masculine
  • Type species: Tuarangisaurus keyesi Wiffen & Moisley, 1986
    • Fixation: original designation [p. 207] [and monotypy]

References

• Gasparini, Z.; Salgado, L.; Casadio, S. 2003: Maastrichtian plesiosaurs from northern Patagonia. Cretaceous research, 24(2): 157-170. doi: 10.1016/S0195-6671(03)00036-3
• Kear, B.P. 2007: Taxonomic clarification of the Australian elasmosaurid genus Eromangasaurus, with reference to other austral elasmosaur taxa. Journal of vertebrate paleontology, 27(1): 241-246. doi: 10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[241:TCOTAE]2.0.CO;2 JSTOR
• Sachs, S. 2005: Tuarangisaurus australis sp. nov. (Plesiosauria: Elasmosauridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern Queensland, with additional notes on the phylogeny of the Elasmosauridae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 50(2): 425-440. PDF
• Wiffen, J.; Moisley, W.L. 1986: Late Cretaceous reptiles (families Elasmosauridae and Pliosauridae) from the Mangahouanga Stream, North Island, New Zealand. New Zealand journal of geology and geophysics, 29(2): 205-252. Google books

links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus