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Tuarangisaurus keyesi (Māorian for ancient lizard) is a species of elasmosaur, a type of marine reptile with a long neck and small head, from the waters of the South Pacific. Like many of its cousins, this animal not only feeds on fish, it swallows round stones that aid in both buoyancy and digestion. Living in large pods like today’s whales and dolphins, these creatures protect themselves and each other from predators.

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Tuarangisaurus

Tuarangisaurus — вимерлий рід еласмозавридів, відомий з Нової Зеландії. Типовим і єдиним відомим видом є Tuarangisaurus keyesi, названий Віффеном і Мойслі в 1986 році.

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https://extinctworld.in.ua/tuarangisaurus/

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Tuarangisaurus keyesi

Photo by: FunkMonk, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10959008

Name: Tuarangisaurus keyesi

Name Meaning: ‬Ancient lizard

First Described: 1986

Described By: Wiffen‭ & ‬Moisley

Classification: Chordata, Tetrapoda, Reptilia, ‬Sauropterygia,‭ ‬Plesiosauria, ‬Elasmosauridae

Tuarangisaurus was another elasmosaurid plesiosaur discovered from New Zealand, particularly the Tahora Formation. This elasmosaurid dates all the way back to the Late Cretaceous about 78 million years ago. It is the second plesiosaur ever found from New Zealand as Mauisaurus was the first one discovered. Anyways, it was approximately 26 feet (8 meters) in its total body length. A fairly complete skull and lower jaw was recovered along with some back vertebrae as well. The middle ear bone was discovered in the skull of one specimen, which is very significant because it shattered the hypothesis that elasmosaurs didn’t have the middle ear bone and had lost it over time.

Sources:

http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/t/tuarangisaurus.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuarangisaurus

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