Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Polycotylidae

Full reference: P. S. Druckenmiller. 2002. Osteology of a new plesiosaur from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Thermopolis Shale of Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(1):29-42

Parent taxon: Polycotylidae according to R. B. J. Benson and P. S. Druckenmiller 2014

See also Druckenmiller 2002, Ketchum and Benson 2010 and Otero et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Ceraunosaurus, Cimoliasaurus leucoscopelus, Manemergus, Mauriciosaurus, Pahasapasaurus, Palmulainae, Palmulasaurinae, Plesiopleurodon, Polycotyilnae, Polycotylinae, Sulcusuchus, Thililua, Polycotylus ichthyospondylus tanais, Polycotylus brevispondylus

Subtaxa: Edgarosaurus muddi

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Type: Edgarosaurus muddi

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Edgar (Cretaceous of Montana)

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