Picrocleidus
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| Picrocleidus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Cryptoclididae |
| Genus: | †Picrocleidus Seeley, 1892 |
| Type species | |
| †Picrocleidus beloclis Seeley, 1892 | |
Picrocleidus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur. It is known only from the type species P. beloclis from the Middle Jurassic Oxford Clay Formation (Callovian stage) of the United Kingdom.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Benson, R. B. J.; Druckenmiller, P. S. (2013). "Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition". Biological Reviews: n/a. doi:10.1111/brv.12038.
- ↑ Andrews, Charles W 1910. A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford Clay, Part 2. British Museum (Nat. Soc. 13:139-149.
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