Georgiasaurus

Georgiasaurus; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Life restoration
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	†Sauropterygia
Order:	†Plesiosauria
Family:	†Polycotylidae
Subfamily:	†Polycotylinae
Genus:	†Georgiasaurus; Otschev, 1977
Species
	†G. penzensis;
Synonyms
	Georgia penzensis;

Georgiasaurus ("Georgy's lizard"; after V. A. Otschev's father, Georgy Otschev, a geodesist who died shortly before Otschev published the description in 1976) is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Russia. Otschev (or Ochev) originally named the specimen Georgia, but that name was preoccupied (Baird & Girrard, 1853). Originally a complete skeleton, the specimen was damaged in preparation of the quarry stone.

It was a fairly large polycotylid, measuring 4–5 m (13–16 ft) long.^[1]

^ Glenn W. Storrs; Maxim S. Arkhangel'skii; Vladmir M. Efimov (2003). "11 – Mesozoic Marine Reptiles of Russia and Other Former Soviet Republics". In Michael J. Benton; Mikhail A. Shishkin; David M. Unwin; Evgenii N. Kurochkin (eds.). The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0521545822.

[1] Glenn W. Storrs; Maxim S. Arkhangel'skii; Vladmir M. Efimov (2003). "11 – Mesozoic Marine Reptiles of Russia and Other Former Soviet Republics". In Michael J. Benton; Mikhail A. Shishkin; David M. Unwin; Evgenii N. Kurochkin (eds.). The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0521545822.

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