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a given fossil belonged to. Marine fossils are more common than fossils of land animals in New
Zealand because dead animals and plants are easily preserved in sand and mud. Therefore, some fossils of marine reptiles are complete enough to be assigned to a specific
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Agnolin, Federico L.; Ezcurra, MartĂn D.; Pais, Diego F.; Salisbury, Steven W. (24 May 2010). "A reappraisal of the
Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: evidence for their Gondwanan affinities".
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Caldwell, Michael W.; Holmes, Robert; Bell, Gorden L.; Wiffen, Joan (27 June 2005). "An unusual tylosaurine mosasaur from New
Zealand: a new skull of Taniwhasaurus oweni (Lower Haumurian; Upper Cretaceous)".
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Cruickshank, Arthur R. I.; Fordyce, R. Ewan (May 2002). "A New Marine
Reptile (Sauropterygia) from New Zealand: Further Evidence for A Late Cretaceous Austral Radiation of Cryptoclidid Plesiosaurs".
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in the
Chatham Islands include six or seven (possibly more) bones from dinosaurs, as well as numerous bones from early birds, but more information is needed about these to add them to the list.
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Hiller, Norton; O’Gorman, José P.; Otero, Rodrigo A.; Mannering, Al A. (3 April 2017). "A reappraisal of the Late
Cretaceous Weddellian plesiosaur genus Mauisaurus Hector, 1874".
793:"Second specimen of the Late Cretaceous Australian sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae provides new anatomical information on the skull and neck of early titanosaurs"
436:, the largest of which measured 45 cm (18 in) in diameter. With centra almost twice the diameter of those belonging to the largest ichthyosaur with preserved vertebrae,
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Wiffen, J.; Moisley, W. L. (April 1986). "Late
Cretaceous reptiles (Families Elasmosauridae and Pliosauridae) from the Mangahouanga Stream, North Island, New Zealand".
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Wiffen, J. (July 1980). "Moanasaurus , a new genus of marine reptile (Family
Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of North Island, New Zealand".
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1013:"New mosasaur material from the Maastrichtian of Angola, with notes on the phylogeny, distribution and palaeoecology of the genus Prognathodon"
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Known from phalanges. Associated with possible coprolites. It can’t be identified for certain, but the bones superficially resemble
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it may have been among the largest vertebrates to ever exist. These specimens can no longer be located, and may have been lost. A
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Poropat, Stephen F; Kundrát, Martin; Mannion, Philip D; Upchurch, Paul; Tischler, Travis R; Elliott, David A (31 May 2021).
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Schulp, Anne S.; Polcyn, Michael J.; Mateus, Octávio; Jackbs, Maria LuĂsa Morais; da Silva
Tavares, Tatiana (2006).
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Wiffen, J.; Molnar, R.E. (January 1989). "An Upper Cretaceous Ornithopod from New Zealand".
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have also been found in New Zealand. These creatures include:
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Molnar, Ralph E.; Wiffen, Joan; Hayes, Brendan (June 1998).
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10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0393:AUTMFN]2.0.CO;2
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Fleming, C. A.; Gregg, D. R.; Welles, S. P. (1971-01-05).
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Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology
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521:A dubious genus; largest plesiosaur in New Zealand
396:A mosasauroid outside of the mosasaurid family
1091:New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
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959:New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
830:New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
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71:List of Australian and Antarctic dinosaurs
910:Giant marine reptiles of North Canterbury
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871:"A review of Australasian ichthyosaurs"
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698:Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
305:Fossils of other reptiles from the
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869:Zammit, Maria (September 2010).
542:Largest mosasaur in New Zealand
1123:Extinct reptiles of New Zealand
676:New Zealand geologic time scale
1128:Lists of dinosaurs by landmass
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263:, include the tetanuran
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259:within the
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31:New Zealand
1117:Categories
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682:References
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507:Mauisaurus
488:Cretaceous
416:The first
388:Cretaceous
369:Formation
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257:Antarctica
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173:Ornithopod
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283:Gondwana
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