Callawayasaurus
Callawayasaurus is a genus of plesiosaur from the family Elasmosauridae. When the holotype was first described by Samuel Paul Welles in 1962, it was described as Alzadasaurus colombiensis before being moved into its current genus by Kenneth Carpenter in 1999.
| Callawayasaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, | |
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| Skull of Callawayasaurus colombiensis displayed in the Paleontological Museum of Villa de Leyva | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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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