Brancasaurus

Taxobox
name = "Brancasaurus"
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = Skull of "Brancasaurus" in dorsal and lateral view, and showing the tip of the snout (C) in ventral view
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Sauropterygia
unranked = Eusauropterygia
ordo = Plesiosauria
familia = Elasmosauridae
genus = "Brancasaurus"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "Brancasaurus brancai" (type) Wegner, 1914

"Brancasaurus" is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Early Cretaceous of what is now Germany. The type species is "Brancasaurus brancai", first named by Wegner in 1914 in honor of German paleontologist Wilhelm von Branca. "Brancasaurus" was similar to "Elasmosaurus"; like "Elasmosaurus", it had a long neck and a small head.

References

* Druckenmiller, Patrick S. and Russell, Anthony P. (2006). "A new elasmosaurid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Cretaceous Clearwater Formation, northeastern Alberta, Canada". "Paludicola" 5(4): 184-199

External links

* [http://www.plesiosauria.com/brancasaurus.html "Brancasaurus"] in the Plesiosaur Directory