Gronausaurus wegneri Hampe 2013 (elasmosaur)

Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae

Full reference: O. Hampe. 2013. The forgotten remains of a leptocleidid plesiosaur (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauroidea) from the Early Cretaceous of Gronau (Münsterland, Westphalia, Germany). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 87:473-491

Belongs to Gronausaurus according to O. Hampe 2013

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GMM-A3B.2, a partial skeleton (Incomplete skeleton containing three isolated teeth, jaw and skull roof fragments, braincase, 6 cervical, 4 pectoral, 16 dorsal, 4 sacral, and 22 caudal vertebr). Its type locality is Gerdemann clay pit, Gronau, which is in a Berriasian estuary/bay shale/claystone in the Bückeberg Formation of Germany.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Gerdemann clay pit, Gronau

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