Simolestes keileni Godefroit 1994 (plesiosaur)

Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae

Full reference: P. Godefroit. 1994. Simolestes keileni sp. nov., un Pliosaure (Plesiosauria, Reptilia) du Bajocien supérieur de Lorraine (France). Bulletin des Académie et Société Lorraines des sciences 33(2):77-95

Belongs to Simolestes according to P. Godefroit 1994

Sister taxa: Simolestes indicus, Simolestes vorax

Type specimen: MNHNL BU159, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Montois-la-Montagne, which is in a Bajocian marine marl in the Marnes de Gravelotte (=La Gravclotte Marls) Formation of France.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Montois-la-Montagne

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