Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Full reference: S. Chatterjee and B. Creisler. 1994. Alwalkeria (Theropoda) and Morturneria (Plesiosauria), new names for preoccupied Walkeria Chatterjee, 1987 and Turneria Chatterjee and Small, 1989. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(1):142
Parent taxon: Aristonectinae according to J. P. O'Gorman et al. 2019
See also Gasparini et al. 2003, O'Gorman 2019, O'Keefe 2001, O'Keefe 2004, O'Keefe et al. 2017 and Otero et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Alexandronectes, Aristonectes, Mauisaurus, Mauisaurus haasti, Tuarangisaurus cabazai, Wunyelfia
Subtaxa: Morturneria seymourensis
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Morturneria in the database
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