Genus: Tatenectes O’KEEFE & WAHL, 2003b
Etymology: In honor of Marion and Inez Tate, founders of the Tate Museumi n Casper, Wyoming in 1980, and Greek, nectes, "diver."

Species: laramiensis (KNIGHT, 1900) O’KEEFE & WAHL, 2003b
= Cimoliasaurus laramiensis KNIGHT, 1900
Etymology:
= Tricleidus laramiensis (KNIGHT, 1900) MEHL, 1912

Holotype: Uncatalogued.

Locality: Wyoming.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Jurassic.

Material: Left humerus, the radius 5 carpals and a sixth bone which is probably a supernumerary epipodial.
Note: Lost (O’KEEFE & WAHL, 2003b)

Neotype: UW 15943, 24801

= Tricleidus? laramiensis DRAKE & WAHL, 1994

Locality: Roughlock Hill, Northern Natrona County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lower Redwater Shale Member, Sundance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Humerus, coracoid, pubis, fragment of ischium and 13 dorsal vertebrae and 2 ribs.

Referred material:

UW 24802: Fragmentary skeleton.

 

 

STREEK, O'KEEFE & LOCKWOOD, 2007, STREET & O'KEEFE, 2010, O'KEEFE, STREET, WILHELM, RICHARDS & ZHU, 2011

Locality: Near Shell, Big Horn County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Redwater Shale Member, Sundance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

USNM 53976: Partial skull, humerus missing part of the shaft, and a partial pectoral girdle and other elements.

USNM 536970:

 

WAHL, 1996, WAHL, 1998, WAHL, 2005

Locality: UW locality V-92066, Near the town of Armento, Natrona County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Upper Redwater Shale, Sundance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Oxfordian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

UW 24215: Articulated specimen.
Note: Found with Hybodont teeth and fin spines and cephalophoid hooklets and gastroliths were found in the stomach area.