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Wunyelfia
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wunyelfia is a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur, a type of long-necked marine reptile, that lived in the oceans of Late Cretaceous Chile. It contains one species, W. maulensis.[1]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
Genus: | †Wunyelfia Otero et al., 2020 |
Species: | †W. maulensis |
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†Wunyelfia maulensis Otero et al., 2020 | |
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