Stenorhynchosaurus
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Stenorhynchosaurus is an extinct genus of pliosaurid plesiosaurs which lived in the Early Cretaceous of South America. The type species and only known is Stenorhynchosaurus munozi.
== Etymology == The genus name is derived from the Greek words stenos, "narrow"; rhynchos, "snout" and sauros, "lizard", while the specific name munozi is in recognition of Jorge Muñoz by discover and report the fossil.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stenorhynchosaurus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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