Libonectes
Libonectes is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile belonging to the plesiosaur order. It is known from specimens found in the Britton Formation of Texas (USA) and the Akrabou Formation of Morocco, which have been dated to the lower Turonian stage of the late Cretaceous period.
| Libonectes Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Skull SMNK PAL 3978 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
| Genus: | †Libonectes Carpenter, 1997 |
| Species: | †L. morgani |
| Binomial name | |
| †Libonectes morgani (Welles, 1949) [originally Elasmosaurus] | |
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