Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Full reference: B. Brown. 1913. A new plesiosaur, Leurospondylus, from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 32(40):605-615
Belongs to Leurospondylus according to S. P. Welles 1962
See also Brown 1913, Hay 1930 and Russell 1966
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH 5261, a partial skeleton (35 vertebral centra and 16 spines, of which there are 12 cervicals, 18 dorsals and 5 caudals; 30 ribs, 7 abdominal ribs, coracoids, scaulae, humeri, ilia, ischi). Its type locality is east bank, Red Deer River, which is in a Maastrichtian marine siliciclastic in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Canada.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at east bank, Red Deer River
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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