Tuarangisaurus
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Taxonavigation
[edit]Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Podiata
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Cladus: Eugnathostomata
Cladus: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Cladus: Stegocephali
Cladus: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Sauropsida
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Cladus: Diapsida
Cladus: Neoreptilia
Cladus: Parapleurota
Cladus: Neodiapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Cladus: Archelosauria
Superordo: †Sauropterygia
Ordo: †Plesiosauria
Subordo: †Plesiosauroidea
Familia: †Elasmosauridae
Genus: † Tuarangisaurus
Species (2): T. keyesi – ?T. cabazai
Name
[edit]Tuarangisaurus Wiffen & Moisley, 1986
- Gender: masculine
- Type species: Tuarangisaurus keyesi Wiffen & Moisley, 1986
- Fixation: original designation [p. 207] [and monotypy]
References
[edit]- 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 Reference page.
Links
[edit]- †Tuarangisaurus Wiffen & Moisley, 1986 (elasmosaur) – Taxon details on Paleobiology Database.
