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ZARAFASAURA
(zaa-rah-fa-sore-ra)
meaning: "Giraffe lizard"
Zarafasaura
Named By: Peggy Vincent, Nathalie Bardet, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, Baadi Bouya, Mbarek Amaghzaz & Said Meslouh in 2011
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian
Location: Morocco, Oulad Abdoun Basin
Size: Uncertain due to lack of fossil material
Diet: Piscivore
Fossil(s): Incomplete skull and mandible (lower jaw) that was crushed from above, and a single complete mandible
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Sauropterygia | Sauropterygia | Elasmosauridae |
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Zarafasaura is an extinct genus of elasmosaurid known from the Oulad Abdoun Basin of Morocco.

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