Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae

Full reference: C. W. Andrews. 1909. On some new Plesiosauria from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough. Annals And Magazine of Natural History 4:418-429

Parent taxon: Cryptoclididae according to R. B. J. Benson and P. S. Druckenmiller 2014

See also Andrews 1910, Brown 1981, Sepkoski 2002, Wegner 1914 and White 1940

Sister taxa: Abyssosaurus, Colymbosaurus, Cryptoclidus, Cryptoclidus aldingeri, Djupedalia, Kimmerosaurus, Muraenosaurus, Ophthalmothule, Pantosaurus, Spitrasaurus, Tatenectes, Tricleidus, Vinialesaurus

Subtaxa: Picrocleidus beloclis

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Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Peterborough area, Leeds Collection (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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