图注：贴着海底游泳的极泳龙，图片来自网络
PS：最后还是得辟谣，本次发现的并不是恐龙化石，而是属于蛇颈龙类薄片龙科的化石，是生活在中生代的海生爬行动物！参考资料：
1. J.P. O'Gorman，S. Santillana，R. Otero，M.Reguero，A giant elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria) from Antarctica: New information on elasmosaurid body size diversity and aristonectine evolutionary scenarios，Cretaceous Research，Volume 102, October 2019, Pages 37-58
2. O'Keefe, F., Otero, R., Soto-Acuña, S., O'gorman, J., Godfrey, S., Chatterjee, S. 2017. Cranial anatomy of Morturneria seymourensis from Antarctica, and the evolution of filter feeding in plesiosaurs of the Austral Late Cretaceous. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1347570
3.Otero, R. A., Soto-Acuña, S. and Rubilar-Rogers, D. 2012. A postcranial skeleton of an elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Maastrichtian of central Chile, with comments on the affinities of Late Cretaceous plesiosauroids from the Weddellian Biogeographic Province. Cretaceous Research, 37: 89–99.
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