Plesionectes
| Plesionectes Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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| Holotype specimen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Plesiosauroidea |
| Genus: | †Plesionectes Sachs & Madzia, 2025 |
| Species: | †P. longicollum
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| Binomial name | |
| †Plesionectes longicollum Sachs & Madzia, 2025
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Plesionectes (meaning "near swimmer") is an extinct genus of basal plesiosauroid plesiosaurs known from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian age) Posidonia Shale of Germany. The genus contains a single species, Plesionectes longicollum, known from a well-preserved, nearly complete skeleton.