Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Full reference: J. P. O’Gorman, J. I. Canale, P. Bona, D. E. Tineo, M. Reguero and M. Cárdenas. 2024. A new elasmosaurid (Plesiosauria: Sauropterygia) from the López de Bertodano Formation: new data on the evolution of the aristonectine morphology. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22(1):2312302
Belongs to Marambionectes according to J. P. O’Gorman et al. 2024
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: IAA-Pv 752, a partial skeleton (Incomplete skeleton comprising the basioccipital, mandible, isolated teeth, 48 cervical vertebrae, including the atlas-axis complex, two pectoral vertebrae, 14 ). Its type locality is Unit 9, Lopez de Bertodano, which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone/siltstone in the López de Bertodano Formation of Antarctica.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Unit 9, Lopez de Bertodano
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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