Eiectus
| Eiectus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, | |
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| Specimen MCZ 1285, which may have been reconstructed with too many vertebrae | |
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| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pliosauroidea |
| Family: | †Pliosauridae |
| Genus: | †Eiectus Noè & Gómez-Pérez, 2021 |
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| †Eiectus longmani Noè & Gómez-Pérez, 2021 | |
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Eiectus is a potentially valid genus of extinct short-necked pliosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous period. Fossil material has been recovered from the Wallumbilla Formation (Aptian) of Queensland was initially classified under the related genus Kronosaurus until 2021.
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