Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Leptocleididae

Full reference: A. R. I. Cruickshank and J. A. Long. 1997. A new species of pliosaurid reptile from the Early Cretaceous Birdrong Sandstone of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18:263-276

Belongs to Leptocleidus according to A. R. I. Cruickshank and J. A. Long 1997

See also Poropat et al. 2023 and Scanlon 2006

Sister taxa: Leptocleidus capensis, Leptocleidus superstes

Type specimen: WAM 92.8.1-1 to 68, a partial skeleton (right femur, , psrt of tibia, psrts of the left femur, possibel fragments of lower jaw, lacking teeth, pelvic girdle element, part of a propodial head, part of ). Its type locality is "Stone Wall," Murchison House Station, which is in a Barremian/Aptian fluvial sandstone in the Murderong Shale Formation of Australia.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at "Stone Wall," Murchison House Station

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