Genus
Valid Extinct

Nichollssaura

Druckenmiller and Russell 2009

Nichollssaura is an extinct genus of leptocleidid plesiosaur from the Early Cretaceous Boreal Sea of North America. The type species is N. borealis, found in the early Albian age Clearwater Formation near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore aquatic, depth=surface Marine
Nichollssaura
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Nichollssaura at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. © Sebastian Bergmann from Siegburg, Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
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Plesiosauria Order
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Plesiosauroidea Superfamily
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Leptocleidia Unranked clade
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Leptocleididae Family
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Nichollssaura Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇦 Canada
1
Geological formations
Clearwater
1
Temporal distribution
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
1
Species (2)
Nichollsia borealis replaced by Nichollssaura borealis 113 Ma
Nichollssaura borealis 113 Ma
Synonyms (1)
Nichollsia replaced by Nichollssaura
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
P. S. Druckenmiller and A. P. Russell. 2009. The new plesiosaurian genus Nichollssaura from Alberta, Canada: replacement name for the preoccupied genus Nichollsia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(1):276-276 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
P. S. Druckenmiller and A. P. Russell. 2008. Skeletal anatomy of an exceptionally complete specimen of a new genus of plesiosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Early Albian) of northeastern Alberta, Canada. Palaeontographica. Abteilung A: Palaeozoologie-Stratigraphie 283(1-3):1-33 DOI ↗