Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae

Alternative combinations: Pliosaurus pachydeirus, Pliosaurus pachydirus

Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge 1-143

Belongs to Liopleurodon according to L. B. Tarlo 1960

See also Lydekker 1889 and Seeley 1869

Sister taxon: Liopleurodon ferox

Type specimen: CAMSM J.46912, a set of vertebrae (atlas-axis plus 15 cervical vertebrae). Its type locality is Great Gransden brick pit, which is in an Oxfordian marine claystone in the Ampthill Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Great Gransden brick pit

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.