Kawanectes
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kawanectes (meaning "Kawas swimmer") is a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur, a type of long-necked marine reptile, that lived in the marginal marine (probably estuarine) environment of Late Cretaceous Patagonia. It contains one species, K. lafquenianum, described in 2016 by O'Gorman.[1]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
Genus: | †Kawanectes O'Gorman 2016 |
Species: | †K. lafquenianum |
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†Kawanectes lafquenianum (Gasparini & Goñi 1985) | |
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