Callawayasaurus
Sign in to saveCallawayasaurus 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.
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 7 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Cretaceous Colombia and Early Cretaceous plesiosaurs.
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- Parent taxon
- Elasmosauridae
- Image
- Callawayasaurus colombiensis.JPG
- Length
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- taxon name
- Callawayasaurus
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- genus
- Commons category
- Callawayasaurus
- taxonomic type
- Callawayasaurus colombiensis
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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.
==History== Callawayasaurus is named in honor of the paleontologist Jack M. Callaway, editor of Ancient Marine Reptiles who, as Carpenter put it, "in his brief career as a vertebrate paleontologist, did much to improve our understanding of marine reptiles." The familiar suffix, -saurus comes from the Greek '' (), meaning "lizard" or "reptile".
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