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Artist's restoration of Mauisaurus

...that Mauisaurus was the largest plesiosaur to roam New Zealand waters and that it gets its name from the Māori god Maui?
...that unlike most plesiosaurs, Leptocleidus once lived in shallow lagoon environments and likely visited brackish and fresh water systems such as the mouths of rivers?
... that Dactylosaurus lived in the Middle Triassic period during the Anisian faunal stage of central Europe?
...that Terminonatator ponteixensis is the type and only species described for Terminonatator, a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from Late Cretaceous of Saskatchewan, Canada?
...that the first Styxosaurus fossil to be discovered had about 250 stones in its stomach that it probably swallowed for ballast?