Hydralmosaurus
| Hydralmosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 84–80.5 Ma | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
| Genus: | †Hydralmosaurus Welles, 1943 |
| Species: | †H. serpentinus (Cope, 1877) (originally Elasmosaurus) |
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Hydralmosaurus (meaning "salt water lizard") is a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur. It is known only from a single specimen discovered in Late Cretaceous (late Santonian - early Campanian age) rocks of Nebraska, USA.[1] Hydralmosaurus was coined as a new genus for "Elasmosaurus" serpentinus in 1943 by Samuel Paul Welles.[2] A 2016 study found it to be synonymous with Styxosaurus.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Carpenter, K. (1999). "Revision of North American elasmosaurs from the Cretaceous of the western interior." Paludicola, 2(2): 148-173.
- ↑ Welles, Samuel P. (1943). "Elasmosaurid plesiosaurs with description of new material from California and Colorado". Memoirs of the University of California. 13 (3): 125–254.
- ↑ Otero RA. (2016) Taxonomic reassessment of Hydralmosaurus as Styxosaurus: new insights on the elasmosaurid neck evolution throughout the Cretaceous. PeerJ 4:e1777 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1777
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