Fluvionectes
| Fluvionectes | |
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Life restoration
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
| Genus: | †Fluvionectes Campbell et al., 2021 |
| Species: | †F. sloanae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Fluvionectes sloanae Campbell et al., 2021
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Fluvionectes (meaning "river swimmer", from both Latin and Greek) is a genus of
plesiosaur found in the Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta, Canada. It is known from a holotype, which includes parts of the trunk area, and from a much larger specimen referred to this taxon.[1]
Description
The holotype indiviudal of Fluvionectes reached 5 m (16 ft) long. A much larger specimen indicates that this taxon may have reached 7 m (23 ft) in maximum body length.[1]
Classification
The describers placed Fluvionectes in the Elasmosauridae, in a clade with Albertonectes, Nakonanectes, Styxosaurus, and Terminonatator, which by definition places it in the Elasmosaurinae subfamily.[1]
Paleobiology
Fluvionectes appears to have been a
freshwater (and possibly brackish water) animal based on its discovery from a non-marine to paralic sedimentary unit. This is significantly different in contrast to most elasmosaurs which were oceanic.[1]
References
- ^ PMID 33614274.)
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