Trinacromerum

Trinacromerum
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Mounted T. kirki cast at the Royal Ontario Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: †Sauropterygia
Order: †Plesiosauria
Family: †Polycotylidae
Genus: †Trinacromerum
Cragin, 1888
Species
  • †T. bentonianum Cragin, 1888 (type)
  • †T. kirki Russell, 1935

Trinacromerum is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile, a member of the polycotylid plesiosaurs. It contains two species, T. bentonianum and T. kirki. Specimens have been discovered in the Late Cretaceous fossil deposits of what is now modern Kansas and Manitoba.[1]

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