Hydrotherosaurus
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hydrotherosaurus (meaning "fisherman lizard") is an extinct genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian stage) Moreno Formation of Fresno County, California, USA. The only known species, H. alexandrae, was named for Annie Montague Alexander in 1943 by Samuel Paul Welles.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
Genus: | †Hydrotherosaurus Welles, 1943 |
Species: | †H. alexandrae |
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†Hydrotherosaurus alexandrae Welles, 1943 | |
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