| Wapuskanectes Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| Specimen TMP2012.50.1 with gastroliths | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
| Genus: | †Wapuskanectes Druckenmiller & Russell, 2006 |
| Species: | †W. betsynichollsae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Wapuskanectes betsynichollsae Druckenmiller & Russell, 2006
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Wapuskanectes is an extinct genus of early elasmosaurid known from Alberta, Canada, in the Albian aged Wabiskaw member of the Clearwater Formation.[1]
Wapuskanectes is the oldest North American elasmosaurid to date, at around 112 million years old.[1]
- ^ a b Patrick S. Druckenmiller; Anthony P. Russell (2006). "A new elasmosaurid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Cretaceous Clearwater Formation, northeastern Alberta, Canada" (PDF). Paludicola. 5 (4): 184–199.