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Elasmosaurus (/ɪˌlæzməˈsɔːrəs, -moʊ-/) is a genus of plesiosaur that lived in North America during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period, at about 80.6 to 77 million years ago. The first specimen was discovered in 1867 near Fort Wallace, Kansas, US, and was sent to the American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope, who named it E. platyurus in…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Elasmosaurus | is a | portmanteau of the Ancient Greek ἔλᾰσμᾰ | 0.90 | text |
| Elasmosaurus | related to Classification | Though Cope | 0.60 | section |
| Elasmosaurus | related to Classification | Cimoliasaurus | 0.60 | section |
| Elasmosaurus | related to Classification | Crymocetus | 0.60 | section |
| Elasmosaurus | related to Classification | He | 0.60 | section |
| Elasmosaurus | related to Classification | Streptosauria | 0.60 | section |
| Elasmosaurus | related to Classification | Leidy's | 0.60 | section |
| Elasmosaurus | related to Classification | In | 0.60 | section |
| Elasmosaurus | related to Classification | Elasmosauridae | 0.60 | section |
| Elasmosaurus | related to Classification | Within | 0.60 | section |
| Elasmosaurus | related to Classification | Pliosauridae | 0.60 | section |
| Elasmosaurus | related to Classification | Plesiosauridae | 0.60 | section |
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