Kawanectes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
Genus: | †Kawanectes O'Gorman 2016 |
Species: | †K. lafquenianum
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Binomial name | |
†Kawanectes lafquenianum (Gasparini & Goñi 1985)
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Kawanectes (meaning "Kawas swimmer") is a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur, a type of long-necked marine reptile, that lived in the marginal marine (probably estuarine) environment of Late Cretaceous Patagonia. It contains one species, K. lafquenianum, described in 2016 by O'Gorman.[1]