Elasmosaurid plesiosaur

Scientific name: Elasmosauridae indet.

Officially approvedEntity code: ENT-0033

Body

Elasmosaurids had extremely long necks, often longer than their bodies, with more than 70 neck vertebrae in some.

Evidence: SRC-225Statement code: CLM-ENT0033-MORPH-02

Sources (1)

Sources

Ahmad reads the approved sentences themselves, nothing more.

1Natural History Museum (London) — What is a plesiosaur?SRC-225
2GBIF taxonomic name lookup — Elasmosauridae indet.SRC-AUD-GBIF-ENT-0033
3Late Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) marine reptiles from the Adaffa Formation, NW Saudi ArabiaSRC-031
4Kear et al. 2013 — First Dinosaurs from Saudi ArabiaSRC-030

Approved version OWNER-REVIEW-20261104T083428640 · last approved 4 November 2026