Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (middle Campanian), 80.57–80.5 Ma
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Diagram of a restored skull
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Superorder:
†Sauropterygia
Order:
†Plesiosauria
Family:
†Polycotylidae
Clade:
†Dolichorhynchia
Genus:
†Unktaheela
Species:
†U. specta
Binomial name
†Unktaheela specta
Clark, O'Keefe & Slack, 2023
Unktaheela is an extinct genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous Sharon Springs Formation of the United States. The genus contains a single species, U. specta, known from two partial skeletons. Unktaheela represents the smallest known polycotylid.
Unktaheela is an extinct genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous Sharon Springs Formation of the United States. The genus contains a single...
Announced in 2023; the final article version will be published in 2024. Unktaheela Gen. et sp. nov In press Clark, O'Keefe, & Slack Late Cretaceous (Campanian)...
polycotyline from the Niobrara Formation. This clade, in turn, is sister to Unktaheela. These species, together with Dolichorhynchops spp. (D. osborni and D...
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