Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Full reference: S. W. Williston. 1890. Structure of the plesiosaurian skull. Science 16(405):262
Belongs to Cimoliosaurus according to S. W. Williston 1890
See also Carpenter 1999, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, O'Gorman 2019, O'Keefe 2001, Storrs 1999, Welles 1949, Welles 1962, Williston 1890, Williston 1903 and Williston 1906
Sister taxa: Brimosaurus grandis, Cimoliasaurus brevior, Cimoliasaurus maccoyi, Cimoliasaurus magnus, Cimoliosaurus laramiensis, Cimoliosaurus magnus
Type specimen: KUVP 1301, a skull (a skull and 28 cervical vertebrae). Its type locality is Hell Creek, which is in a Santonian marine horizon in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cimoliosaurus snowii in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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