Kronosaurus queenslandicus Longman 1924 (plesiosaur)

Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae

Full reference: H. A. Longman. 1924. Some Queensland fossil vertebrates. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1):16-28

Belongs to Kronosaurus according to B. P. Kear 2003

See also Anonymous 1959, Fordyce 1991, Longman 1924, O'Keefe 2001, Scanlon 2006, Welles 1962 and White 1935

Sister taxon: Kronosaurus boyacensis

Type specimen: QM F1609, a mandible. Its type locality is Dunraven Station, Hughenden area, which is in an Albian marine lime mudstone in the Toolebuc Formation of Australia.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Dunraven Station, Hughenden area

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