Martinectes
Genus of polycotylid plesiosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the plesiosaur genus. For musical genre, see Martinetes.
Martinectes is an extinct genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous Sharon Springs Formation of the United States. The genus contains a single species M. bonneri, known from multiple skeletons and skulls. Martinectes was historically considered to represent a species of the genus Trinacromerum and later Dolichorhynchops before it was moved to its own genus.[1]
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Martinectes | |
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Skeleton cast, Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Polycotylidae |
Subfamily: | †Polycotylinae |
Clade: | †Dolichorhynchia |
Genus: | †Martinectes Clark, O'Keefe & Slack, 2023 |
Type species | |
†Martinectes bonneri Adams, 1997 | |
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