Kingdom Animalia Superorder Sauropterygia Phylum Chordata Order Plesiosauria | Class Sauropsida Family Rhomaleosauridae Rank Genus | |
Similar Archaeonectrus, Sthenarosaurus, Eurycleidus, Bishanopliosaurus, Hauffiosaurus |
Maresaurus is an extinct genus of pliosaur from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) of what is now Argentina. The type species, Maresaurus coccai, was named by Gasparini in 1997. Recent phylogenetic analysis found Maresaurus to be a rhomaleosaurid.
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