| Nichollssaura Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| Holotype specimen at the Royal Tyrrell Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Clade: | †Leptocleidia |
| Family: | †Leptocleididae |
| Genus: | †Nichollssaura Druckenmiller & Russell, 2009 |
| Species: | †N. borealis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Nichollssaura borealis (Druckenmiller & Russell, 2008 [originally Nichollsia, preoccupied])
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| Synonyms | |
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Nichollsia borealis Druckenmiller & Russell, 2008 | |
Nichollssaura is an extinct genus of leptocleidid[1] plesiosaur from the Early Cretaceous Boreal Sea of North America. The type species is N. borealis, found in the early Albian age Clearwater Formation near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.[2]
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