Fluvionectes
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
| Genus: | †Fluvionectes Campbell et al., 2021 |
| Species: | †F. sloanae
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| †Fluvionectes sloanae Campbell et al., 2021
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Fluvionectes (meaning "river swimmer", from both Latin and Greek) is a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur found in the Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta, Canada. It is known from a single specimen, the holotype, which includes parts of the trunk area.[1]
Description[]
Fluvionectes was probably 5 metres (16 ft) long.
Classification[]
The describers placed Fluvionectes in the Elasmosauridae, in a clade with Albertonectes, Nakonanectes, Styxosaurus, and Terminonatator, which by definition places it in the Elasmosaurinae subfamily.
Paleobiology[]
Fluvionectes appears to have been a freshwater animal, in contrast to most elasmosaurs which were oceanic.
References[]
- ^ Campbell, Mitchel, Ryan and Anderson, James A., Mark T., Michael J., Jason S. (2021). "A new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the non-marine to paralic Dinosaur Park Formation of southern Alberta, Canada". PeerJ.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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