Tuarangisaurus

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: † 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 Reference page. 

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