Nakonanectes was a plesiosaur, a type of marine reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it coexisted with many dinosaurs. Nakonanectes lived during the Late Cretaceous and resided in North America.

All the Nakonanectes illustrations below were collected from the internet. Enjoy and explore:

Nakonanectes was described by the following scientific paper(s):
  • D. J. Serratos, P. Druckenmiller, and R. B. J. Benson. 2017. A new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Bearpaw Shale (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian) of Montana demonstrates multiple evolutionary reductions of neck length within Elasmosauridae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(2):e1278608