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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Polycotylidae |
| Genus: | †Georgiasaurus Otschev, 1977 |
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Georgiasaurus ("Georgy's lizard"; after V. A. Otschev's father, Georgy Otschev, a geodesist who died shortly before Otschev published the description in 1976) is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Russia. Otschev (or Ochev) originally named the specimen Georgia, but that name was preoccupied (Baird & Girrard, 1853). Originally a complete skeleton, the specimen was damaged in preparation of the quarry stone.
It was a fairly large polycotylid, measuring 4–5 m (13–16 ft) long.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ Glenn W. Storrs, Maxim S. Arkhangel'skii & Vladmir M. Efimov (2003). "11 – Mesozoic Marine Reptiles of Russia and Other Former Soviet Republics". In Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin & Evgenii N. Kurochkin (ed.). The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0521545822.
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