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Accession No	1989.109.1
Name/Title	Mauisaurus haasti; neck vertebra, fossil
Brief Description	This fossil neck vertebra is from Mauisaurus haasti, an elasmosaur (a long necked plesiosaur) that lived during the late Cretaceous period, around 80 to 69 million years ago, in what later became New Zealand. It was the largest plesiosaur, and perhaps the largest marine reptile, in New Zealand waters at the time. This fossil was excavated from the Mangahouanga Stream, Hawkes Bay, in the mid 1980s while the donor was working with Joan Wiffen.
Classification	Mauisaurus haasti/Mauisaurus
Primary Prod Place	Hawke Bay/Aotearoa/New Zealand
Measurement Reading	17cm 9.5cm 5.3cm

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