Genus: Tuarangisaurus WIFFEN & MOISLEY, 1986
Etymology: Moari, turangi, “ancient, from far away” and Greek, sauros, “lizard”: Ancient lizard.
= Tourangisaurus ARAUJO, POLCYN, MATEUS & SCHULP, 2010 (sic)

Species: keysei WIFFEN & MOISLEY, 1986
Etymology:

Holotype: NZGS,CD425

Locality: V19/f6909, Mangahouanga Stream, North Island, New Zealand.

Horizon: Maungataniwha Sandstone.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Piripauan-Haumurian, Campanian-Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian Subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Skull.

Referred material:

NZGS, CD426: Fused atlas/axis, 7 successive cervical vertebrae, left angular, quadrate and squamosal.

NZGS, CD428: Pectoral girdle consisting of right and left coracoids, scapulae, and broad humerus, a single vertebral centrum of a juvenile.

 

Locality: V19/f6508a, Mangahouanga Stream, North Island, New Zealand.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Piripauan-Haumurian, Campanian-Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian Subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

NZGS, CD427: Fragmentary skull, and incomplete skeleton of a juvenile.
Note: Found with 30 round gastroliths.

 

Locality: V19/f68, Mangahouanga Stream, North Island, New Zealand.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Piripauan-Haumurian, Campanian-Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian Subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

NZGS, CD429: Cervical and 3 dorsal centra, with displace neural spines, pubis and ischia, rib and gastralia of a juvenile.