Microcleidus

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Microcleidus
Fossil range: Early Jurassic
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Plesiosauria
Suborder: Plesiosauroidea
Genus: Microcleidus

Microcleidus is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile belonging to the plesiosaur suborder. It was about the size of a whale. Species include: Microcleidus homalospondylus (Owen 1865) and Microcleidus macropterus (Seeley 1865b). The species has 40 neck vertebrae and a short tail of 28 vertebrae.

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