Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Leptocleididae

Alternative combinations: Peyerus capensis, Plesiosaurus capensis

Full reference: C. W. Andrews. 1911. Description of a new plesiosaur (Plesiosaurus capensis, sp. nov.) from the Uitenhage Beds of Cape Colony. Annals of the South African Museum 7(4):309-322

Belongs to Leptocleidus according to F. R. O'Keefe 2001

See also Andrews 1911, Andrews 1922, Cruickshank 1997, Persson 1963 and Welles 1962

Sister taxa: Leptocleidus clemai, Leptocleidus superstes

Type specimen: SAM-PK 5822, a partial skeleton (Skull and various postcrania). Its type locality is Picnic Bush, Swartkops River, which is in a Valanginian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Sundays River Formation of South Africa.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Picnic Bush, Swartkops River

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