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Archaeonectrus

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Archaeonectrus
Temporal range: Jurassic
Fossil
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Archaeonectrus
Species
  • Archaeonectrus rostratus (type) Owen, 1865

Archaeonectrus is an extinct genus of pliosaur from the Jurassic of what is now southeastern England. The type species is Archaeonectrus (originally "Plesiosaurus") rostratus, first named by Sir Richard Owen in 1865, which was moved to its own genus by N.I. Novozhilov in 1964.

Fossil

Classification

Illustration

The cladogram below shows Archaeonectrus phylogenetic position among other plesiosaurs, following Benson et al. (2012).[1]

Plesiosauria 

See also

References

  1. ^ "High Diversity, Low Disparity and Small Body Size in Plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary". PLoS ONE. 7 (3): e31838. 2012. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031838. PMC 3306369. PMID 22438869. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  • Sepkoski, J.J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1-560.