Umoonasaurus

Umoonasaurus
Rango temporal: 115 Ma
Cretácico Inferior
Taxonomía
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Clase: Sauropsida
Superorden: Sauropterygia
Orden: Plesiosauria
Familia: Leptocleididae
Género: Umoonasaurus
Especie: U. demoscyllus
Kear, Schroeder & Lee, 2006[1]

Umoonasaurus es un género extinto representado por una única especie de plesiosaurio[2]​ perteneciente a la familia Leptocleididae.[3]​ Este género vivió hace aproximadamente 115 millones de años (épocas del Aptiense al Albiense) en los mares poco profundos que cubrían buena parte de la moderna Australia. Era un animal relativamente pequeño que medía cerca de 2.5 metros de largo. Un rasgo distintivo de Umoonasaurus es la presencia de tres crestas en su cráneo.[1]

Referencias

  1. a b Kear BP, Schroeder NI, Lee MSY. 2006. An archaic crested plesiosaur in opal from the Lower Cretaceous high-latitude deposits of Australia Archivado el 4 de diciembre de 2010 en Wayback Machine.. Biology Letters 2: 615–619.
  2. Ketchum, H. F. & Benson, R. B. J. (2010). «Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses». Biological Reviews 85: 361-392. PMID 20002391. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00107.x. 
  3. Smith AS, Dyke GJ. 2008. The skull of the giant predatory pliosaur Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni: implications for plesiosaur phylogenetics. Naturwissenschaften e-published 2008.

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