What is Futabasaurus?
{{italictitle}} {{taxobox | name = ''Futabasaurus'' | image = National Museum of Nature and Science- Futabasaurus.jpg | image_width = 280px | image_caption = Reconstructed skeleton | fossil_range = [[Upper Cretaceous]] | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | classis = [[Sauropsida]] | superordo = [[Sauropterygia]] | ordo = [[Plesiosauria]] | familia = [[Nessiterasidae]] | genus = '''''Futabasaurus'''''}} [[File:Lochneska poboba museumofnessie.jpg|thumb|230px|Model based off ''[[Nessiteras]]'']] '''''Futabasaurus''''' was a [[plesiosaur]] from the [[Upper Cretaceous]]. A complete [[skeleton]] of one has not been found. It is not known very well. ''Futabasaurus'' is the first [[Elasmosauridae|elasmosaurid]] found in [[Japan]]. The [[type species]] is ''F. suzukii''. Many of the bones of the [[holotype|type specimen]] show apparent scavenging or predation by [[sharks]].<ref name=TSetal06>{{cite journal | year=2006 |title=A new elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Fukushima, Japan |journal=Palaeontology |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=467–484 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00554.x|last1=Sato |first1=Tamaki |last2=Hasegawa |first2=Yoshikazu |last3=Manabe |first3=Makoto |s2cid=128621270 }}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Plesiosaurs]]