Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Polycotylidae
Full reference: M. -C. Buchy, F. Métayer, and E. Frey. 2005. Osteology of Manemergus anguirostris n. gen. et sp., a new plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Morocco. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 272:97-120
Parent taxon: Polycotylidae according to H. F. Ketchum and R. B. J. Benson 2010
See also Buchy et al. 2005
Sister taxa: Ceraunosaurus, Cimoliasaurus leucoscopelus, Edgarosaurus, Mauriciosaurus, Pahasapasaurus, Palmulainae, Palmulasaurinae, Plesiopleurodon, Polycotyilnae, Polycotylinae, Sulcusuchus, Thililua, Polycotylus ichthyospondylus tanais, Polycotylus brevispondylus
Subtaxa: Manemergus anguirostris
Type: Manemergus anguirostris
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at North of Goulmima (Unit 4) (Cretaceous of Morocco)
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