Pahasapasaurus
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Chordata
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Class: | |
Subclass: | Enaliosauria
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Genus: | Pahasapasaurus
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Pahasapasaurus is a genus of plesiosaur. It was an early polycotylid plesiosaur from the Cenomanian of South Dakota, USA. Distinctive features of the taxon include elongate epipodial bones (radius/ulna - tibia/fibula) and the nature of the palate bones (roof of the mouth). The type species is P. haasi.[1]
See also[]
- List of plesiosaur genera
- List of plesiosaurs
- Timeline of plesiosaur research
References[]
- ^ Schumacher, B. A. 2007. A new polycotylid plesiosaur (Reptilia; Sauropterygia) from the Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous; lower upper Cenomanian), Black Hills, South Dakota. in Marin, J.E., and Parris, D.C., eds., The Geology and Paleontology of the Late Cretaceous Marine Deposits of the Dakotas: Geological Society of America Special Paper 427, p. 133-146.
Categories:
- Late Cretaceous plesiosaurs of North America
- Fossil taxa described in 2007
- Fossils of the United States
- Sauropterygian genera
- Plesiosaur stubs