Embaphias

{{Short description|Dubious genus of plesiosaur}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Late Cretaceous

| taxon = Embaphias

| authority = Cope, 1894

| type_species = {{extinct}}Embaphias circulosus

| type_species_authority = Cope, 1894

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Embaphias is a dubious{{cite journal |last=Welles |first=S.P. |date=1962 |title=A new species of elasmosaur from the Aptian of Columbia and a review of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5yw-AQAAIAAJ |journal=University of California Publications in the Geological Sciences |volume=44 |pages=1–96 |isbn=9780598201485}} genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America. It was named by Edward Drinker Cope on the basis of three cervical vertebrae. The type species is E. circulosus.{{cite journal | last1 = Cope | first1 = E.D. | title = On the Structure of the Skull in the Plesiosaurian Reptilia, and on Two New Species from the Upper Cretaceous | journal = Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society | volume = 33 | issue = 144 | pages = 109–113 | date = 1894 | jstor = 983364 }}