Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Full reference: H.-E. Sauvage. 1873. Notes sur les reptiles fossiles. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, série 3 1:365-386
Parent taxon: Thalassophonea according to R. B. J. Benson and P. S. Druckenmiller 2014
See also Hampe 2013, Ketchum and Benson 2010, Ketchum and Benson 2011, Lydekker 1889, Malakhov 1999, O'Keefe 2001 and Tarlo 1960
Sister taxa: Brachaucheninae, Gallardosaurus, Makhaira, Peloneustes, Pliosaurus, Pliosaurus brachyspondylus, Pliosaurus macromerus, Simolestes
Subtaxa: Liopleurodon ferox Liopleurodon pachydeirus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1 collection)
• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (2), the United Kingdom (6)
Total: 12 collections including 13 occurrences
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