Reptiles
- Ankylosaur, unidentified (Cretaceous)
- Compsognathus-like creature (Late Jurassic)
- Hypsilophodont, unidentified (Cretaceous)
- Joan Wiffen's Theropod (Cretaceous)
- Kawekaweau, Hoplodactylus delcourti (1870)
- Narrow-bodied Skink, Oligosoma gracilicorpus
- Northland Skink, Cyclodina northlandi (Late Holocene)
- Theropod, unidentified (Cretaceous)
- Titanosaur (Cretaceous)
Plesiosaurs and other fossil marine reptiles, such as mosasaurs, have been known from New Zealand.
- Mauisaurus, Mauisaurus haasti (Late Cretaceous, 65 million years ago)
- Moanasaurus, Moanasaurus mangahouangae (Late Cretaceous)
- Nothosaur, unidentified, (Triassic)
- New Zealand Plesiosaur, Kaiwhekea katiki (Late Cretaceous, 69–70 million years ago)
- Waipara mosasaur, Prognathodon waiparaensis (Late Cretaceous, 70 million years ago)
Read more about this topic: List Of Extinct Animals Of New Zealand
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