Nichollssaura
Nichollssaura is an extinct genus of leptocleidid plesiosaur from the Early Cretaceous Boreal Sea of North America. The type species is N. borealis, found in the early Albian age Clearwater Formation near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
| Nichollssaura Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, | |
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| Holotype specimen at the Royal Tyrrell Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Clade: | †Leptocleidia |
| Family: | †Leptocleididae |
| Genus: | †Nichollssaura Druckenmiller & Russell, 2009 |
| Species: | †N. borealis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Nichollssaura borealis (Druckenmiller & Russell, 2008 [originally Nichollsia, preoccupied]) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Nichollsia borealis Druckenmiller & Russell, 2008 | |
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