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SVELTONECTES
(svel-toe-nek-tees)
meaning: "Agile swimmer"
Named By: Valentin Fischer, Maxim S. Arkhangelsky, Pascal Godefroit & Edwige Masure in 2011
Time Period: Early Cretaceous, 126 Ma
Location: Russia, Ul'yanovsk
Size: Unavailable
Diet: Piscivore/Carnivore
Fossil(s): Almost complete specimen
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Ichthyosauria | Ophthalmosauridae | Platypterygiinae |
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Sveltonectes is an extinct genus of platypterygiine ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur known from Ul'yanovsk region, western Russia.

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