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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Cryptoclididae |
| Genus: | †Spitrasaurus Knutsen, Druckenmiller & Hurum, 2012 |
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Spitrasaurus is an extinct genusofcryptoclidid[1] plesiosauroid plesiosaur known from the uppermost Jurassic of central Spitsbergen, Norway[2] and likely also Kimmeridge, England.[3] It is named after a syllabic abbreviation for Spitsbergen Travel.
The holotype of S. wensaasi is PMO 219 718 and consists of sixty articulated cervical vertebrae and skull material from a juvenile,[2] and the holotype of S. larseni is SVB 1450 and also consists of cervical vertebrae.[2]
A cervical vertebra, MANCH LI 5519c, was found in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in England and was tentatively assigned to cf. Spitrasaurus in 2014 after being compared to Colymbosaurus megadeirus,[3] while more possible Spitrasaurus vertebrae found at Kimmeridge reside within the collectionofSteve Etches.
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