Hydrotherosaurus

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Hydrotherosaurus
Fossil range: Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Plesiosauria
Suborder: Plesiosauroidea
Family: Elasmosauridae
Genus: Hydrotherosaurus
Welles, 1943
Species
  • H. alexandrae Welles, 1943

Hydrotherosaurus (meaning "water beast lizard") is an extinct genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Fresno County, California, measuring up to 13 m in length.

[edit] References

  • Welles, S. P. 1943. "Elasmosaurid plesiosaurs with a description of the new material from California and Colorado", University of California Memoirs 13:125-254. figs.1-37., pls.12-29.
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