NEW ZEALAND

NORTH ISLAND

SOUTH OF KIRITEHERE STREAM

SOUTH-WEST AUCKLAND

MARAKOPA COAST

N82/505

ORETIAN

LOWER CARNIAN STAGE

LOWER LATE TRIASSIC EPOCH

LATE TRIASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA

NEODIAPSIDA: BENTON, 1985

LEPIDOSAUROMORPHA: BENTON 1985

INFRACLASS: EURYAPSIDA COLBERT, 1945

SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN 1860

GRANDORDER: EOSAUROPTERYGIA emend RIEPPEL, 1994

ORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835

SUBORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835

INFRAORDER: PLESIOSAUROMORPHA NOVA

EUPLESIOSAURIA O’KEEFE, 2001

Family: PLESIOSAURIDAE Gray, 1825

Incertae sedis

Plesiosaurus sp