Moanasaurus
| Moanasaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Superfamily: | †Mosasauroidea |
| Family: | †Mosasauridae |
| Tribe: | †Mosasaurini |
| Genus: | †Moanasaurus Wiffen, 1980 |
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Moanasaurus (From Māori moana "sea" and Greek sauros "lizard"; meaning "Sea Lizard") was a genus of mosasaur from the Late Cretaceous period. Its fossil remains have been discovered in the North Island of New Zealand. Moanasaurus was a very large mosasaurine known originally from a disarticulated skull, vertebrae, ribs and flipper bones. It reached 12 m in length and the skull is 78 cm, which shows that Moanasaurus was one of the largest in the subfamily of Mosasaurinae.[1]
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References[]
- ^ Wiffen, J. (1980). "Moanasaurus, a new genus of marine reptile (Family Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of North Island, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 23 (4): 507–528. doi:10.1080/00288306.1980.10424122.
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- Mosasaurines
- Mosasaurs of Oceania
- Fossils of New Zealand
- Fossil taxa described in 1980
- Taxa named by Joan Wiffen
- Prehistoric lizard stubs
- Extinct animals of New Zealand