Edgarosaurus

Edgarosaurus

Taxobox
name= "Edgarosaurus"
fossil_range= Early Cretaceous
regnum= Animalia
phylum= Chordata
classis= Sauropsida
superordo= Sauropterygia
ordo= Plesiosauria
subordo= Plesiosauroidea
familia= Polycotylidae
genus= "Edgarosaurus"
species= "E. muddi"
binomial= "Edgarosaurus muddi"

"Edgarosaurus" is a genus of polycotylid plesiosaur, containing one species, "E. muddi". The type specimen was found in Early Cretaceous (late Albian) rocks in the state of Montana in the USA. At the time, this location was covered by part of the Western Interior Seaway.

References

Druckenmiller, PS, 2002. Osteology of a new plesiosaur from the lower Cretaceous (Albian) Thermopolis Shale of Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22: 29-42. (Abstract)


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