Sachicasaurus Temporal range: Barremian
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Holotype specimen of Sachicasaurus. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Pliosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Brachaucheninae |
Genus: | †Sachicasaurus |
Species: | †S. vitae
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Binomial name | |
†Sachicasaurus vitae Páramo Fonseca et al., 2018
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Sachicasaurus is an extinct genus of brachauchenine pliosaurid known from the Barremian of the Paja Formation, Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Colombian Eastern Ranges of the Andes. The type species is S. vitae.