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Hydralmosaurus

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Hydralmosaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 84–80.5 Ma
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Missing taxonomy template (fix): Hydralmosaurus serpentinus
Synonyms

Hydralmosaurus (meaning "salt water lizard") is a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur. It is known from fossils discovered in Late Cretaceous (late Santonian - early Campanian age) rocks of Nebraska and Wyoming, USA.[1] Hydralmosaurus was coined as a replacement name for "Elasmosaurus" serpentinus in 1943 by Samuel Paul Welles.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Carpenter, K. (1999). "Revision of North American elasmosaurs from the Cretaceous of the western interior." Paludicola, 2(2): 148-173.
  2. ^ 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.