Embaphias is a dubious[1] genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America. It was named by Edward Drinker Cope on the basis of three cervical vertebrae. The type species is E. circulosus.[2]
| Embaphias Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Embaphias Cope, 1894 |
| Type species | |
| †Embaphias circulosus Cope, 1894
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Welles, S.P. (1962). "A new species of elasmosaur from the Aptian of Columbia and a review of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs". University of California Publications in the Geological Sciences. 44: 1–96. ISBN 9780598201485.
- ^ Cope, E.D. (1894). "On the Structure of the Skull in the Plesiosaurian Reptilia, and on Two New Species from the Upper Cretaceous". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 33 (144): 109–113. JSTOR 983364.
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