Thalassomedon Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Mounted cast of the type specimen, American Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
Genus: | †Thalassomedon Welles, 1943 |
Species: | †T. haningtoni
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Binomial name | |
†Thalassomedon haningtoni Welles, 1943
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Thalassomedon (from Greek, thalassa, "sea" and Greek, medon, "lord" or "ruler", meaning "sea lord") is a genus of plesiosaur, named by Welles in 1943.