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Palmulasaurus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superorder
  
†Sauropterygia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Plesiosauria

Class
  
Reptilia

Family
  
†Polycotylidae

Rank
  
Genus

Subfamily
  
†Palmulasaurinae Albright et al., 2007

Similar
  
Sthenarosaurus, Lusonectes, Edgarosaurus, Thililua, Seeleyosaurus

Palmulasaurus is a genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Utah. It was originally described as Palmula, but the name was occupied by a genus of Cretaceous foraminifer first described in 1833.

References

Palmulasaurus Wikipedia