Paleontologists Identify Strange New Species of Elasmosaur: Traskasaura sandrae

May 23, 2025 - 13:15
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Paleontologists Identify Strange New Species of Elasmosaur: Traskasaura sandrae
Traskasaura sandrae. Image credit: O’Keefe et al., doi: 10.1080/14772019.2025.2489938.

Traskasaura sandrae, a 12-m-long elasmosaur (a type of plesiosaur) that lived in the Cretaceous seas, 85 million years ago, had a strange mix of primitive and derived traits unlike any other elasmosaur.

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