Full reference: L. Schwermann and P. M. Sander. 2011. Osteologie und Phylogenie von Westphaliasaurus simonsensii: Ein neuer Plesiosauride (Sauropterygia) aus dem Unteren Jura (Pliensbachium) von Sommersell (Kreis Höxter), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland. Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 79:1-60
Parent taxon: Plesiosauroidea according to R. B. J. Benson and P. S. Druckenmiller 2014
See also Benson et al. 2012 and Schwermann and Sander 2011
Sister taxa: Cimoliosaurus limnophilus, Cryptoclidia, Cryptoclididae, Elasmosauridae, Euplesiosauria, Franconiasaurus, Leptocleidia, Microcleididae, Opallionectes, Plesiopharos, Plesiopterys, Plesiosauridae, Plesiosaurus, Polycotylidae, Sthenarosaurus
Subtaxa: Westphaliasaurus simonsensii
Type: Westphaliasaurus simonsensii
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Lücking clay pit, Sommersell (Jurassic of Germany)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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