Discosaurus

Discosaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Holotype vertebrae of D. vestutus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: †Sauropterygia
Order: †Plesiosauria
Superfamily: †Plesiosauroidea
Family: †Elasmosauridae
Genus: †Discosaurus
Leidy, 1851
Type species
†Discosaurus vestutus
Leidy, 1851

Discosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Santonian of Alabama and Mississippi. One species is known, which is D. vestutus.

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