Chubutinectes
Chubutinectes (meaning "Chubut swimmer") is an extinct genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous La Colonia Formation of Argentina. The genus contains a single species, C. carmeloi, known from a partial skeleton and associated gastroliths.
| Chubutinectes Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
| Clade: | †Weddellonectia |
| Genus: | †Chubutinectes O'Gorman et al., 2023 |
| Species: | †C. carmeloi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Chubutinectes carmeloi O'Gorman et al., 2023 | |
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