References
Reference
Hiller, Norton and Mannering, A. (2005) An unusual new elasmosaurid plesiosaur (Sauropterygia) from the Upper Haumurian (Maastrichtian) of the South Island, New Zealand; Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 51(1), pp.27-37
An unusual new elasmosaurid plesiosaur (Sauropterygia) from the Upper Haumurian (Maastrichtian) of the South Island, New Zealand
Principal Author
Norton Hiller
Other Authors
A. Mannering
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Academic paper
Journal
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum
Volume
51
Issue
1
Pages
27-37
Abstract
An unusual new elasmosaur is described from postcranial elements preserved in a large concretionary mass from the Conway Formation(Haumurian; Masstrichtian) of the Waipara River area, North Canterbury,South Island, New Zealand. The specimen, representing the youngest plesiosaur described so far from New Zealand, is distinguished by characters of the pectoral girdle, particularly the elongate, rod-like ventral process and the symphyseal fossa on the fused coracoids.
Keywords
elasmosaur, Late Cretaceous, New Zealand
Language
English