Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae
Full reference: E. M. Knutsen, P. S. Druckenmiller, and J. H. Hurum. 2012. A new plesiosauroid (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Agardhfjellet Formation (Middle Volgian) of central Spitsbergen, Norway. Norwegian Journal of Geology 92:213-234
Belongs to Djupedalia according to E. M. Knutsen et al. 2012
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PMO 216.839, a partial skeleton (semiarticulated skeleton of a juvenile plesiosaur including a partial lower jaw and incomplete left quadrate and squamosal; a partial cervical and dorsal verteb). Its type locality is The northeastern slope of Janusfjellet (Djupedalia engeri type), which is in a Tithonian deep-water mudstone in the Agardhfjellet Formation of Norway.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at The northeastern slope of Janusfjellet (Djupedalia engeri type)
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