Archaeonectrus
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| Archaeonectrus Temporal range: Jurassic
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Archaeonectrus is an extinct genus of pliosaur from the Jurassic of what is now southeastern England. The type species is Archaeonectrus (originally "Plesiosaurus") rostratus, first named by Sir Richard Owen in 1865, which was moved to its own genus by N.I. Novozhilov in 1964.
Classification
File:Archaeonectrus.jpg
Illustration
The cladogram below shows Archaeonectrus phylogenetic position among other plesiosaurs, following Benson et al. (2012).[1]
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See also
References
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- Sepkoski, J.J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1-560.
External links
- Archaeonectrus in the Paleobiology Database
