Unktaheela Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (middle Campanian),
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Diagram of a restored skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Polycotylidae |
Clade: | †Dolichorhynchia |
Genus: | †Unktaheela |
Species: | †U. specta
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Binomial name | |
†Unktaheela specta Clark, O'Keefe & Slack, 2023
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Unktaheela is an extinct genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous Sharon Springs Formation of the United States. The genus contains a single species, U. specta, known from two partial skeletons. Unktaheela represents the smallest known polycotylid.