Uronautes
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Uronautes is an extinct genus of rhomaleosaurid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous Fox Hills Formation of the United States. The type species is U. cetiformis.
== Discovery and naming == The holotype, AMNH 5688, consists of several fossilized vertebra, portions of a few limbs, and ribs.
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