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 wensaasi

Type specimen: SVB 1450, a partial skeleton (disarticulated juvenile plesiosaur skeleton consisting of the basioccipital, right quadrate and incomplete right squamosal, an incomplete jaw and several incomp). Its type locality is The north slope of Janusfjellet (Spitrasaurus larseni 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 larseni type)

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