Eretmosaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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Neotype specimen of E. rugosus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Microcleididae |
Genus: | †Eretmosaurus Seeley, 1874 |
Type species | |
†Eretmosaurus rugosus Seeley, 1874
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Eretmosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Early Jurassic Blue Lias of England.[1] Only the type species is known, which is E. rugosus.[2]