Georgiasaurus
Georgiasaurus Temporal range:
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Polycotylidae |
Genus: | †Georgiasaurus Otschev, 1977 |
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Georgiasaurus ("Georgy's lizard"; after V. A. Otschev's father, , a geodesist who died shortly before Otschev published the description in 1976) is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Russia. Otschev (or Ochev) originally named the specimen Georgia, but that name was preoccupied (Baird & Girrard, 1853). Originally a complete skeleton, the specimen was damaged in preparation of the quarry stone.
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Categories:
- Late Cretaceous plesiosaurs
- Fossils of Russia
- Fossil taxa described in 1997
- Sauropterygian genera
- Plesiosaur stubs