Unranked clade
Valid Extinct

Cryptoclidia

Ketchum and Benson 2010

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore aquatic, depth=surface Marine
Cryptoclidia
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Dolichorhynchops osborni, National Museum of Natural History, Washington D. C. © Ryan Somma · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
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Plesiosauria Order
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Plesiosauroidea Superfamily
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Cryptoclidia Unranked clade
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1
Geological formations
Lulworth
1
Temporal distribution
Berriasian (143.1–137.05 Ma)
1
Synonyms (1)
Cryptocleidoidea replaced by Cryptoclidia
Images 3
Bibliography
Original description
H. F. Ketchum and R. B. J. Benson. 2010. Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses. Biological Reviews 85:361-392 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
B. P. Kear, A. R. Milner, and P. M. Barrett. 2009. Plesiosaur remains from the Jurassic-Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 120:121-125 DOI ↗