Genus
Valid Extinct

Morturneria

Chatterjee and Creisler 1994

Morturneria is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of what is now Antarctica.

Temporal range
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PBDB occurrences
0
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore aquatic, depth=surface Marine
Morturneria
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Life reconstruction of Morturneria seymourensis © Connor Ashbridge · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
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Plesiosauria Order
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Plesiosauroidea Superfamily
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Elasmosauridae Family
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Weddellonectia Unranked clade
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Aristonectinae Subfamily
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Morturneria Genus
Species (2)
Morturneria seymourensis
Turneria seymourensis replaced by Morturneria seymourensis
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
S. Chatterjee and B. Creisler. 1994. Alwalkeria (Theropoda) and Morturneria (Plesiosauria), new names for preoccupied Walkeria Chatterjee, 1987 and Turneria Chatterjee and Small, 1989. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(1):142 DOI ↗