Libonectes

thumb|Holotype skull of Libonectes morgani Libonectes is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile belonging to the plesiosaur order. It is known from specimens found in the Britton Formation of Texas (USA) and the Akrabou Formation of Morocco, which have been dated to the lower Turonian stage of the late Cretaceous period.

== Nomenclature == thumb|Life restoration |leftThe prefix "libo" comes from Greek (lips), and means "southern (wind)," translated to English. "Nectes," the suffix, is also from Greek (nektes), and translates to "swimmer." In its entirety, Libonectes can be interpreted as "southern swimmer." Libonectes was an elasmosaurid plesiosaur, with many specimens unearthed in southern parts of North America- as a result, it was labeled with such a name as described in the preceding sentence. Charles Gill Morgan is credited with the acquiring and preparation of the first Libonectes fossils, found by tenant farmer T.W. Tidwell in the late 1930s, and it was for this reason that morgani was chosen as the specific name part of its binomial name.