Kaiwhekea
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kaiwhekea ([ˌkaiˈfɛkɛa]) is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian age) of what is now New Zealand.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Aristonectinae |
Genus: | †Kaiwhekea Cruickshank & Fordyce, 2002 |
Type species | |
†Kaiwhekea katiki Cruickshank & Fordyce, 2002 |
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