Embaphias

Embaphias Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
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

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]

See also

• List of plesiosaur genera

References

1. 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.
2. 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.