
Fluvionectes
Sign in to saveFluvionectes (meaning "river swimmer", from both Latin and Greek) is a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur found in the Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta, Canada.
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- Parent taxon
- Elasmosauridae
- Image
- Fluvionectes Scale.svg
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- Fluvionectes
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- Fluvionectes
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- Dinosaur Park Formation
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Fluvionectes (meaning "river swimmer", from both Latin and Greek) is a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur found in the Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta, Canada.
== Description == left|thumb|Quarry map (A) and reconstruction of the holotype (B). The holotype specimen of Fluvionectes is a partial skeleton preserving an osteologically mature, likely a young adult individual that would have reached long and weighed . A more mature, larger, but more fragmentary specimen (TMP 2009.037.0007) is also known, consisting of a partial rib and gastralium, and left humerus, indicating that this taxon may have reached in maximum body length. A number of other fragmentary specimens are also known.
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