Tatenectes
| Tatenectes Temporal range: Late Jurassic, Oxfordian |
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| 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]
References
- ^ a b 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". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 (1): 48–57.
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