Classification
Sauropterygia
Sous-ordre
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Plesiosauria
Ordre
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Plesiosauroidea
Superfamille
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Leptocleidia
Clade non classé
Sites de découverte 21 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Albien
(113.2–100.5 Ma)
5
Aptien
(121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Barrémien
(125.77–121.4 Ma)
4
Hauterivien
(132.6–125.77 Ma)
1
Valanginien
(137.05–132.6 Ma)
6
Berriasien
(143.1–137.05 Ma)
4
Synonymes (1)
Leptocleidoidea
replaced by Leptocleidia
Images 4
Bibliographie
Description originale
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
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Bibliographie (15)
R. B. J. Benson, H. F. Ketchum, and D. Naish, L. E. Turner. 2013. A new leptocleidid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Vectis Formation (Early Barremian–early Aptian; Early Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight and the evolution of Leptocleididae, a controversial clade. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11(2):233-250
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H. F. Ketchum. 2011. Marine reptiles. Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils 14:285-294
P. S. Druckenmiller and A. P. Russell. 2008. Skeletal anatomy of an exceptionally complete specimen of a new genus of plesiosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Early Albian) of northeastern Alberta, Canada. Palaeontographica. Abteilung A: Palaeozoologie-Stratigraphie 283(1-3):1-33
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B. P. Kear. 2007. A juvenile pliosauroid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Cretaceous of South Australia. Journal of Paleontology 81(1):154-162
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B. P. Kear, N. I. Schroeder, and M. S. Y. Lee. 2006. An archaic crested plesiosaur in opal from the Lower Cretaceous high-latitude deposits of Australia. Biology Letters 2:615-619
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R. Forrest and N. Oliver. 2003. Ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs from the Lower Spilsby Sandstone Member (Upper Jurassic), north Lincolnshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 54(4):269-275
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J. A. Long and A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1998. Further records of plesiosaurian reptiles of Jurassic and Cretaceous age from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 19:47-55
A. R. I. Cruickshank and J. A. Long. 1997. A new species of pliosaurid reptile from the Early Cretaceous Birdrong Sandstone of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18:263-276
J. A. Long and A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1996. First record of an Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur bone from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18:219-222
A. Bartholomai. 1966. The discovery of plesiosaurian remains in freshwater sediments in Queensland. The Australian Journal of Science 28(11):437
C. W. Andrews. 1922. Description of a new plesiosaur from the Weald Clay of Berwick (Sussex). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 78:285-298
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T. Wegner. 1914. Brancasaurus brancai n. g. n. sp., ein elasmosauride aus dem Wealden Westfalens. Branca-Festschrift
C. W. Andrews. 1911. Description of a new plesiosaur (Plesiosaurus capensis, sp. nov.) from the Uitenhage Beds of Cape Colony. Annals of the South African Museum 7(4):309-322
E. Koken. 1905. Neue Plesiosaurierreste aus dem norddeutschen Wealden. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 6:681-693
R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia
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