Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Polycotylidae

Full reference: E. Frey, E. W. A. Mulder, W. Stinnesbeck, H. E. Rivera-Sylva, J. M. Padilla-Gutiérrez and A. H. González-González. 2017. A new polycotylid plesiosaur with extensive soft tissue preservation from the early Late Cretaceous of northeast Mexico. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 69(1):87-134

Parent taxon: Polycotylidae according to E. Frey et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Ceraunosaurus, Cimoliasaurus leucoscopelus, Edgarosaurus, Manemergus, Pahasapasaurus, Palmulainae, Palmulasaurinae, Plesiopleurodon, Polycotyilnae, Polycotylinae, Sulcusuchus, Thililua, Polycotylus ichthyospondylus tanais, Polycotylus brevispondylus

Subtaxa: Mauriciosaurus fernandezi

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Type: Mauriciosaurus fernandezi

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Vallecillo quarry (CPC collection) (Cretaceous of Mexico)

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