†Hydrotherosaurus alexandrae Welles 1943 (elasmosaur)
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Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Full reference: S. P. Welles. 1943. Elasmosaurid plesiosaurs with description of new material from California and Colorado. Memoirs of the University of California 13:125-254
Belongs to Hydrotherosaurus according to S. P. Welles 1962
See also O'Gorman 2019 and Welles 1943
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: UCMP 33912, a partial skeleton (fairly complete skeleton with a partly disarticulated skull). Its type locality is Panoche Hills 5, UCMP V3735, which is in a Maastrichtian marine shale in the Moreno Formation of California.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Panoche Hills 5, UCMP V3735
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