Ogmodirus

Ogmodirus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 94.3–89.3 Ma
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Paddle bone of KUVP 441
Cervical series of KUVP 441
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Order:
†Plesiosauria
Suborder:
†Plesiosauroidea
Family:
†Elasmosauridae?
Genus:
†Ogmodirus

Williston and Moodie, 1913
Binomial name
†Ogmodirus martini
Williston & Moodie, 1913
Synonyms
  • Ogmodirus martinii Moodie, 1916

Ogmodirus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur found in the Cenomanian-Turonian (Late Cretaceous) Greenhorn Limestone of Kansas.[1][2] The type species, O. martini, was named by Samuel Wendell Williston and Roy Lee Moodie in 1913.[2]

  1. ^ Ogmodirus martini from Oceans of Kansas
  2. ^ a b Williston, S. W. and Moodie, R. L. (1913). New plesiosaurian genus from the Cretaceous of Nebraska. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 24: 120-121.