Brancasaurus

Brancasaurus; Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Berriasian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Skull of Brancasaurus in dorsal and lateral view, and showing the tip of the snout (C) in ventral view
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Sauropterygia
Order:	Plesiosauria
Family:	Leptocleididae
Genus:	Brancasaurus ; Wegner, 1914
Species
	Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 (type);

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Brancasaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Early Cretaceous of what is now Germany. The type species is Brancasaurus brancai, first named by Wegner in 1914 in honor of German paleontologist Wilhelm von Branca. Brancasaurus was similar to Elasmosaurus; like Elasmosaurus, it had a long neck and a small head.^[2]

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Brancasaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Berriasian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N

Skull of Brancasaurus in dorsal and lateral view, and showing the tip of the snout (C) in ventral view
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Sauropterygia
Order:	Plesiosauria
Family:	Leptocleididae^[1]
Genus:	Brancasaurus Wegner, 1914
Species
Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 (type)