Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Full reference: R. B. J. Benson, H. F. Ketchum, L. F. Noe and M. Gomez-Perez. 2011. New information on Hauffiosaurus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) based on a new species from the Alum Shale Member (Lower Toarcian: Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, UK. Palaeontology 54(3):547-571
Belongs to Hauffiosaurus according to R. B. J. Benson et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Hauffiosaurus longirostris, Hauffiosaurus zanoni
Type specimen: MANCH LL 8004, a skeleton (an almost complete skeleton). Its type locality is Ravenscar, which is in a Bifrons offshore shale in the Whitby Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Ravenscar
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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