Eiectus
Sign in to saveEiectus is a potentially valid genus of extinct short-necked pliosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous period. Fossil material has been recovered from the Wallumbilla Formation (Aptian) of Queensland was initially classified under the related genus Kronosaurus until 2021.
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Eiectus is a potentially valid genus of extinct short-necked pliosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous period. Fossil material has been recovered from the Wallumbilla Formation (Aptian) of Queensland was initially classified under the related genus Kronosaurus until 2021.
==History== ===Initial discoveries=== A partial skull previously assigned to Kronosaurus queenslandicus that was discovered in 1929 in the same place as the holotype of K. queenslandicus probably belonged to Eiectus, and another skull discovered in 1935 near Telemon Station in Hughenden, Queensland and prepared in May 1936 may have also belonged to Eiectus, along with all other Albian remains previously referred to K. queenslandicus.