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 | |
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.