Callawayasaurus
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Callawayasaurus is a genus of plesiosaur from the family Elasmosauridae. When the holotype was first described by Samuel Paul Welles in 1962,[1] it was described as Alzadasaurus colombiensis before being moved into its current genus by Kenneth Carpenter in 1999.[2]
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Callawayasaurus | |
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Skull of Callawayasaurus colombiensis displayed in the Paleontological Museum of Villa de Leyva | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
Genus: | †Callawayasaurus Carpenter, 1999 |
Species: | †C. colombiensis |
Binomial name | |
†Callawayasaurus colombiensis (Wells, 1962 [originally Alzadasaurus]) | |
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