Tatenectes
Tatenectes Temporal range: Late Jurassic, Oxfordian | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Sauropsida |
Order: | Plesiosauria |
Family: | Aristonectidae or Cryptoclididae |
Genus: | Tatenectes O'Keefe and Wahl, 2003 |
Species: | T. laramiensis |
Binomial name | |
Tatenectes laramiensis (Knight, 1900) | |
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Tatenectes is an extinct genus of cryptoclidid plesiosaur known from the Upper Member of the Sundance Formation (late Jurassic) of Wyoming.[1] It was named by O'Keefe and Wahl in 2003 and the type species is Tatenectes laramiensis.[1]
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References
- 1 2 F. Robin O'Keefe and Hallie P. Street (2009). "Osteology Of The Cryptoclidoid Plesiosaur Tatenectes laramiensis, With Comments On The Taxonomic Status Of The Cimoliasauridae" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 (1): 48–57. doi:10.1671/039.029.0118.
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