Mauisaurus (`Maui reptile`) is a genus of plesiosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period around 80 to 69 million years ago in what is now New Zealand. It was the largest plesiosaur, and perhaps the largest marine reptile in New Zealand waters at the time. Mauisaurus haasti is the only known species of the genus. A handful of specimens h.....
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Mauisaurus A “Maui’s lizard” from Late Cretaceous New Zealand. It was named for Maui, a Maori demi-god and hero, to indicate a plesiosaur found in New Zealand, home of the Maori people. Named by Harry Govier Seeley in 1877.
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