Plesioelasmosaurus
Sign in to savePlesioelasmosaurus is an extinct genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous (middle Cenomanian) Greenhorn Limestone of Kansas, United States. The genus contains a single species, P. walkeri, known from a partial skeleton.
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Plesioelasmosaurus is an extinct genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous (middle Cenomanian) Greenhorn Limestone of Kansas, United States. The genus contains a single species, P. walkeri, known from a partial skeleton.
== Discovery and naming == The holotype specimen, UNSM 50134, was discovered by Joe Purzer, an oil field geologist, in 1931 near the town of Holyrood, Kansas. He notified George F. Sternberg and Myrl Vincent Walker, and the excavation of the specimen commenced later in the year. It was collected over a period of ten days in October 1931.
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