Abyssosaurus

Abyssosaurus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 133–130 Ma
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Life restoration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: †Sauropterygia
Order: †Plesiosauria
Family: †Cryptoclididae
Genus: †Abyssosaurus
Berezin, 2011
Type species
†Abyssosaurus nataliae
Berezin, 2011

Abyssosaurus is an extinct genus of cryptoclidid[1] plesiosaur known from the Early Cretaceous of Chuvash Republic, western Russia. It possessed a shortened skull, and it has been suggested that it primarily inhabited the bathyal zone.[2]

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