Spitrasaurus
Spitrasaurus Temporal range: Tithonian
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Cryptoclididae |
Genus: | †Spitrasaurus Knutsen, Druckenmiller & Hurum, 2012 |
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Spitrasaurus is an extinct genus of cryptoclidid[1] plesiosauroid plesiosaur known from the uppermost Jurassic of central Spitsbergen, Norway.[2] It is named after a syllabic abbreviation for Spitsbergen Travel.
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References[]
- ^ Benson, R. B. J.; Druckenmiller, P. S. (2013). "Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition". Biological Reviews. 89 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1111/brv.12038. PMID 23581455. S2CID 19710180.
- ^ Espen M. Knutsen, Patrick S. Druckenmiller and Jørn H. Hurum (2012). "Two new species of long-necked plesiosaurians (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Upper Jurassic (Middle Volgian) Agardhfjellet Formation of central Spitsbergen". Norwegian Journal of Geology. 92 (2–3): 187–212. ISSN 0029-196X.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)Low resolusion pdf[permanent dead link] High resolusion pdf[permanent dead link]
Categories:
- Cryptoclidids
- Tithonian genera
- Late Jurassic plesiosaurs of Europe
- Jurassic Norway
- Fossils of Svalbard
- Agardhfjellet Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 2012
- Sauropterygian genera
- Plesiosaur stubs