Libonectes

Libonectes skull
Genus:
Libonectes
Genus author:
Carpenter, 1997
Classification:
Age:
Turonian, Late Cretaceous
Location:
Near Cedar Hill, Dallas County, Texas, USA
Referred material (sp.):
To compile
Type species:

L. morgani

Libonectes was erected for ‘Elasmosaurus morgani’. The pectoral girdle and a forelimb of the holotype are figured (most recently by Welles 1962, fig. 12) but now lost (Carpenter 1999). Libonectes morgani (Welles, 1949) is the type and only species. Type material of L. morgani (SMUSMP 69120) consists of a skull, cervical vertebrae and gastralia, from the Britton Formation, Eagle Ford Group.