Albertonectes
| Albertonectes Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| The tail vertebrae of the holotype specimen of Albertonectes vanderveldei | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
| Genus: | †Albertonectes Kubo et al., 2012 |
| Type species | |
| †Albertonectes vanderveldei Kubo et al., 2012 | |
Albertonectes is an extinct genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur.[1]
Size of Albertonectes vanderveldei relative to a human
Life restoration
See also
References
- ↑ Kubo, T.; Mitchell, M. T.; Henderson, D. M. (2012). "Albertonectes vanderveldei, a new elasmosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 (3): 557–572. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.658124.
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