Name: Wunyelfia
(after the Mapudungun name for the planet Venus).
Phonetic: Gu-ni-el-fi-ah
Named By: Rodrigo A. Otero & Sergio
Soto-Acu�a - 2020.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae, Aristonectinae.
Species: W. maulensis
(type).
Diet: Piscivore.
Size: Unknown.
Known locations: Chile - Quiriquina Formation.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial remains.
Wunyelfia
is
a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur
that lived in waters around South
America during the late Cretaceous.
Further reading
- Wunyelfia maulensis gen.
et sp. nov., a new basal aristonectine (Plesiosauria,
Elasmosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of central Chile. -
Cretaceous Research. 118: Article 104651. - Rodrigo A.
Otero & Sergio Soto-Acu�a - 2020.