Aristonectes parvidens

Species

A. parvidens

Author

Cabrera, 1941

Classification

Sauropterygia
Eosauropterygia
Eusauropterygia
Pistosauria
Plesiosauria
Plesiosauroidea
Elasmosauridae
Aristonectidae
Aristonectes

Age

Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous

Type location

Chubut River (42, 40' S-70, 00' W), northwest Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina

Geological formation

Paso del Sapo Formation, Fefipan Member

Type specimen

MLP 40-XI-14-6; part of a skull and mandible, atlas-axis complex and 21 cervical vertebrae, 8 caudal vertebrae and an incomplete limb

Referred material

TTU P 9219, incomplete skull and mandible plus associated cervical material; SGO-PV-957, posterior cranium and incomplete mandible

A. parvidens is the type and only species of Aristonectes.