Albertonectes
Albertonectes is an extinct genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (middle upper Campanian stage) Bearpaw Formation of Alberta, Canada. It contains a single species, Albertonectes vanderveldei. Albertonectes is the longest elasmosaur, and more generally plesiosaur, known to date both in neck and total body length.
| Albertonectes Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| The tail vertebrae of the holotype specimen of Albertonectes vanderveldei | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Elasmosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Albertonectes Kubo et al., 2012 |
| Type species | |
| †Albertonectes vanderveldei Kubo et al., 2012 | |
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