Picrocleidus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
Fossils
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: †Sauropterygia
Order: †Plesiosauria
Family: †Cryptoclididae
Genus: †Picrocleidus
Andrews, 1909
Type species
†Muraenosaurus beloclis
Seeley, 1892
Life restoration

Picrocleidus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur. It is known only from the combinatio nova of the type species Muraenosaurus beloclis Seeley 1892, P. beloclis from the Middle Jurassic Oxford Clay Formation (Callovian stage) of the United Kingdom.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Benson, R. B. J.; Druckenmiller, P. S. (2013). "Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition". Biological Reviews. 89 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1111/brv.12038. PMID 23581455. S2CID 19710180.
  2. ^ 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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