Archaeonectrus

Taxobox
name = "Archaeonectrus"
fossil_range = Jurassic


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Sauropterygia
unranked = Eusauropterygia
ordo = Plesiosauria
familia = Pliosauridae
genus = "Archaeonectrus"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "Archaeonectrus rostratus" (type) Owen, 1865/Novozhilov, 1964

"Archaeonectrus" is an extinct genus of pliosaur from the Jurassic of what is now southeastern England. The type species is "Archaeonectrus" (originally "Plesiosaurus") "rostratus", first named by Sir Richard Owen in 1865, and renamed by N.I. Novozhilov 99 years later.

References

* Sepkoski, J.J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". "Bulletins of American Paleontology" 363: 1-560.

External links

* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=36458 "Archaeonectrus"] in the Paleobiology Database