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SPITRASAURUS
(spit-rah-sore-us)
meaning: "Spitsbergen Travel lizard"
Named By: Espen M. Knutsen, Patrick S. Druckenmiller & Joern H. Hurum in 2012
Time Period: Late Jurassic
Location: Norway, Spitsbergen - Agardhfjellet Formation
Size: Uncertain dur to lack of remains
Diet: Piscivore
Fossil(s): Partial remains of at least two individuals, including partial cranial remains and cervical (neck) vertebrae
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Sauropterygia | Plesiosauria | Cryptoclididae |
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Spitrasaurus is an extinct genus of cryptoclidid plesiosauroid plesiosaur known from the uppermost Jurassic of central Spitsbergen, Norway. It is named after a portmanteau of Spitsbergen Travel.

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