Makhaira rossica
| Makhaira Temporal range: Hauterivian, | |
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| Restoration of Makhaira; the preserved remains are showed in color. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Pliosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Brachaucheninae |
| Genus: | †Makhaira Fischer et al., 2015 |
| Species: | †M. rossica |
| Binomial name | |
| †Makhaira rossica Fischer et al., 2015 | |
Makhaira rossica is an extinct genus and species of a marine reptile belonging to the family Pliosauridae. It lived during the early Cretaceous period (Hauterivian epoch, about 130 million years ago), and its fossils have been found in Russia.