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Tatenectes

Tatenectes
Temporal range: Late Jurassic, Oxfordian
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)
Synonyms
  • Cimoliasaurus laramiensis Knight, 1900

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.


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