Serpentisuchops
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Serpentisuchops (meaning "snaky crocodile-face") is a genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the late Cretaceous Pierre Shale of Wyoming, United States. The genus contains a single species, S. pfisterae, known from a partial skeleton.
==Discovery and naming== The holotype specimen, GPM5001, was found at the Old Woman Anticline in the upper Pierre Shale in 1995 and brought to the collection of the Paleon Museum in Glenrock. This locality is dated to the lower Maastrichtian age of the upper Cretaceous period, around 69.59 to 70.00 million years old. It consists of a partial skull, lower jaw, and vertebral column, in addition to the left ilium and pubis.
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