Leivanectes
| Leivanectes Temporal range: Late Aptian
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Plesiosauroidea |
| Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
| Genus: | †Leivanectes Páramo Fonseca et al., 2019 |
| Species: | †L. bernardoi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Leivanectes bernardoi Páramo Fonseca et al., 2019
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Leivanectes is a genus of plesiosaurs of the family Elasmosauridae known from Late Aptian marine deposits in central Colombia. It contains a single species, L. bernadoi, which was described in 2019.
Description
[edit | edit source]Leivanectes differs from Callawayasaurus, which has been found in the same formation, in having fewer mandibular alveoli and a short mandibular symphysis with three alveoli (five in Callawayasaurus).[1]
Distribution
[edit | edit source]Leivanectes remains have been found in the fossiliferous Paja Formation of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, which crops out near Villa de Leyva, also written as Villa de Leiva, Boyaca, Colombia. The genus name refers to Villa de Leiva.[1]
See also
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References
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- Elasmosauridae
- Early Cretaceous plesiosaurs
- Early Cretaceous reptiles of South America
- Plesiosaurs of South America
- Cretaceous Colombia
- Fossils of Colombia
- Altiplano Cundiboyacense
- Paja Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 2019
- Taxa named by María Páramo
- Taxa named by Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini
- Sauropterygian genera