Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
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: Thalassophonea according to R. B. J. Benson and P. S. Druckenmiller 2014
See also Bardet et al. 1991, Carroll 1988, Ketchum and Benson 2010, Ketchum and Benson 2011, O'Keefe 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Tarlo 1960 and White 1940
Sister taxa: Brachaucheninae, Gallardosaurus, Liopleurodon, Makhaira, Peloneustes, Pliosaurus, Pliosaurus brachyspondylus, Pliosaurus macromerus
Subtaxa: Simolestes indicus Simolestes keileni Simolestes vorax
Type: Simolestes vorax
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (1 collection), India (2), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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