Attenborosaurus
| Attenborosaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic, | |
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| Casts of the holotype specimen (NHMUK PV R 1339): one showing the left side view of the thorax (top) and another showing the underside of the body and right side view of the neck and skull (bottom), Natural History Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Pliosauridae |
| Genus: | †Attenborosaurus Bakker, 1993 |
| Species: | †A. conybeari |
| Binomial name | |
| †Attenborosaurus conybeari (Sollas, 1881) | |
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Attenborosaurus is an extinct genus of pliosaurid from the Early Jurassic of Dorset, England. The type species is A. conybeari. The genus is named after David Attenborough, the species after William Conybeare.