Embaphias is a dubious[1] genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America. It was named by Edward Drinker Cope on the basis of three cervical vertebrae. The type species is E. circulosus.[2]

Embaphias
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Sauropterygia
Order: Plesiosauria
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Embaphias
Cope, 1894
Type species
Embaphias circulosus
Cope, 1894

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References

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  1. ^ Welles, S.P. (1962). "A new species of elasmosaur from the Aptian of Columbia and a review of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs". University of California Publications in the Geological Sciences. 44: 1–96. ISBN 9780598201485.
  2. ^ Cope, E.D. (1894). "On the Structure of the Skull in the Plesiosaurian Reptilia, and on Two New Species from the Upper Cretaceous". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 33 (144): 109–113. JSTOR 983364.