Serpentisuchops pfisterae Persons IV et al. 2022 (plesiosaur)

Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Polycotylidae

Full reference: W. S. Persons IV, H. P. Street, and A. Kelley. 2022. A long-snouted and long-necked polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America. iScience 25(10):105033

Belongs to Serpentisuchops according to W. S. Persons IV et al. 2022

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GPM5001, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Old Woman Anticline, which is in a Campanian/Campanian marine shale in the Pierre Shale Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Old Woman Anticline

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