70-million years old fossil marine reptile bones found in Alaska

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CANADA: Researchers said they are very happy with the new discovery because it is the first plesiosaur ever discovered in Alaska.
This June 2015 photo provided by the University of Alaska Museum of the North, shows the dig site where an articulated portion of the spine of a newly discovered elasmosaur fossil is visible at the right of the small plaster jacket extending into the hill in the Talkeetna Mountains in Alaska.
The elasmosaur is basically classified as a plesiosaur, which is not specifically a dinosaur, as it did not walk on land. The fossil is from the late Cretaceous period with an approximate age of 70 million years. Metzler said he is mainly interested in discovering invertebrate creatures, so when he noticed the first vertebra he realized it must be the bone of an ancient creature.
The Elasmosaur had very a 14 meter long neck, and long limbs that resembled boat paddles and made it easy for the animal to swim underwater.
There were two morphological types of plesiosaurs- one of them were known as plesiosauromorph and the other one were known as pliosauromorph.
Researchers from the University of Alaska Museum of the North just announced the discovery of an enormous marine reptile fossil found in the Talkeetna Mountains.