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Plesiosaurus cliduchus

Reptilia - Plesiosauria

Taxonomy
Plesiosaurus cliduchus was named by Seeley (1865). Its type specimen is CAMSM J.35180, a set of postcrania (postcranial skeleton missing pelvic region, tail, and most of neck), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Street (general), which is in a Hettangian shallow subtidal limestone/shale in the Blue Lias Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was synonymized subjectively with Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus by Lydekker (1889) and Delair (1960); it was synonymized subjectively with Thalassiodracon hawkinsii by Storrs and Taylor (1996).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. morinicus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Plesiosaurus cliduchus Seeley p. 356
1869Plesiosaurus cliduchus Seeley pp. 121, 137
2011Plesiosaurus cliduchus Benson et al. pp. 563, 565

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
suborderSauropterygia
orderPlesiosauriade Blainville 1835
superfamilyPlesiosauroideaWelles 1943
genusPlesiosaurus
speciescliduchus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Plesiosaurus cliduchus Seeley 1865
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available