Kawanectes
| Kawanectes Temporal range: Late Campanian to Early Maastrichtian ~ | |
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| Life restoration | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
| Genus: | †Kawanectes O'Gorman 2016 |
| Species: | †K. lafquenianum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Kawanectes lafquenianum (Gasparini & Goñi 1985) | |
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Kawanectes (meaning "Kawas swimmer") is a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur, a type of long-necked marine reptile, that lived in the marginal marine (probably estuarine) environment of Late Cretaceous Patagonia. It contains one species, K. lafquenianum, described in 2016 by O'Gorman.
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