Tatenectes Temporal range: Late Jurassic, Oxfordian |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Sauropsida |
Order: | Plesiosauria |
Family: | Aristonectidae or |
Genus: |
Tatenectes O'Keefe and Wahl, 2003 |
Species: | T. laramiensis |
Binomial name | |
Tatenectes laramiensis (Knight, 1900) |
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Tatenectes is an extinct genus of plesiosaur known from the Upper Member of the Sundance Formation (late Jurassic) of Wyoming. It was named by O'Keefe and Wahl in 2003 and the type species is Tatenectes laramiensis.