Gondwananectes

Gondwananectes
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
(early Bajocian), ~
Holotype material as preserved (A) and tentatively arranged in life position (B)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Sauropterygia
Order: Plesiosauria
Superfamily: Plesiosauroidea
Genus: Gondwananectes
Otero et al., 2026
Species:
G. osvaldoi
Binomial name
Gondwananectes osvaldoi
Otero et al., 2026

Gondwananectes (lit.'Gondwana swimmer') is an extinct genus of plesiosauroid plesiosaur known from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian age) Quehuita Formation of Chile. The genus contains a single species, Gondwananectes osvaldoi, known from a partial skeleton.