Reassessment of the upper Maastrichtian material from Chile referred to Mauisaurus Hector, 1874 (Plesiosauroidea: Elasmosauridae) and the taxonomical value of the hemispherical propodial head among austral elasmosaurids

• Published in: New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
• Main Authors: Otero, R. A., O'gorman, Jose Patricio, Hiller, N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Society of New Zealand
• Subjects: Aristonectinae; Late Cretaceous; Palaeobiogeography; Plesiosauria; Weddellian Province; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Austral; Pacific; New Zealand; Argentina; Hector; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/53493

The femoral hemispherical articular head was regarded as autapomorphic of Mauisaurus haasti Hector, 1874 from the upper Campanian of New Zealand. Review of three Maastrichtian taxa, Aristonectes quiriquinensis from Chile, Aristonectes sp. from Antarctica and Kaiwhekea katiki from New Zealand, reveal...