Zarafasaura was a plesiosaur, a type of marine reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it coexisted with many dinosaurs. Zarafasaura lived during the Late Cretaceous and resided in Africa. The first Zarafasaura fossil was discovered in 2011.
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Zarafasaura was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- P. Vincent and N. Bardet. 2011. Zarafasaura oceanis, a new elasmosaurid (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco and the palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous plesiosaurs. Gondwana Research 19:1062-1073
