Kaiwhekea
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Kaiwhekea is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of what is now New Zealand.
Restoration
Placochelys BW
Nothosaurus BW
Leptocleidus BW
Aristonectes
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Aristonectes is an extinct genus of large elasmosaurid plesiosaurs that lived during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous. Two species are known, A. parvidens and A. quiriquinensis, whose fo
Kaiwhekea
…is nearly complete, and is on display at the Otago Museum in Dunedin, New Zealand. Kaiwhekea has been placed as an aristonectine plesiosaur close to Aristonectes. In 2010, Kaiwhekea was transferred to Leptocleididae, but more recent analyses do not find the same result. The following cladogram shows the placement…
Life restoration of A. quiriquinensis swimming with a squid.
Life restoration of an A. parvidens swimming with the ammonite Diplomoceras