Sveltonectes

Sveltonectes
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: †Ichthyosauria
Family: †Ophthalmosauridae
Subfamily: †Platypterygiinae
Genus: †Sveltonectes
Fischer et al., 2011
Species:
†S. insolitus
Binomial name
†Sveltonectes insolitus
Fischer et al., 2011

Sveltonectes (meaning "agile swimmer" in Greek) is an extinct genus of platypterygiine ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs known from Ul’yanovsk region, western Russia.

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