Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae
Full reference: E. M. Knutsen, P. S. Druckenmiller, and J. H. Hurum. 2012. Two new species of long-necked plesiosaurians (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Upper Jurassic (Middle Volgian) Agardhfjellet Formation of central Spitsbergen. Norwegian Journal of Geology 92:187-212
Belongs to Spitrasaurus according to E. M. Knutsen et al. 2012
Sister taxon: Spitrasaurus larseni
Type specimen: PMO 219.718, a set of postcrania (an articulated postcranial juvenile skeleton including an articulated axial column from the atlasaxis to the 12th dorsal vertebra, cervical and dorsal ribs, num). Its type locality is The north slope of Janusfjellet (Spitrasaurus wensaasi type), which is in a Tithonian deep-water mudstone in the Agardhfjellet Formation of Norway.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at The north slope of Janusfjellet (Spitrasaurus wensaasi type)
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