Classification
Sauropterygia
Sous-ordre
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Plesiosauria
Ordre
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Plesiosauroidea
Superfamille
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Leptocleidia
Clade non classé
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Leptocleididae
Famille
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
Images 1
Bibliographie
Description originale
T. E. White. 1940. Holotype of Plesiosaurus longirostris Blake and classification of the plesiosaurs. Journal of Paleontology 14(5):451-467
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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