Superfamille
Valide Éteint

Pliosauroidea

Welles 1943

Les pliosaures (Pliosauroidea) sont une super-famille fossile de vertébrés diapsides aquatiques et surtout marins du Mésozoïque.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
202
Groupe
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore nektonic Marin
Pliosauroidea
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Classification
Sauropterygia Sous-ordre
Plesiosauria Ordre
Pliosauroidea Superfamille
Sites de découverte 202 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇬🇧 Royaume-Uni
102
🇫🇷 France
18
🇺🇸 États-Unis
15
🇦🇺 Australie
9
🇷🇺 Russie
8
🇩🇪 Allemagne
7
🇲🇽 Mexique
7
🇨🇴 Colombie
6
🇦🇷 Argentine
5
🇨🇳 Chine
4
Formations géologiques
Paja
6
Ornatenton
5
Blue Lias
4
Vaca Muerta
4
Carlile Shale
4
White Lias
3
Coral Rag
3
La Casita
3
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Campanien (83.6–72.2 Ma)
3
Santonien (85.7–83.6 Ma)
1
Turonien (93.9–89.8 Ma)
11
Cénomanien (100.5–93.9 Ma)
13
Albien (113.2–100.5 Ma)
7
Aptien (121.4–113.2 Ma)
9
Barrémien (125.77–121.4 Ma)
4
Hauterivien (132.6–125.77 Ma)
3
Berriasien (143.1–137.05 Ma)
4
Tithonien (149.2–143.1 Ma)
20
Kimméridgien (154.8–149.2 Ma)
56
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
13
Callovien (165.3–161.5 Ma)
34
Bajocien (170.9–168.2 Ma)
1
Aalénien (174.7–170.9 Ma)
3
Toarcien (184.2–174.7 Ma)
5
Pliensbachien (192.9–184.2 Ma)
5
Sinémurien (199.5–192.9 Ma)
2
Hettangien (201.4–199.5 Ma)
7
Synonymes (1)
Brachydeira subjective synonym of Pliosauroidea
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Bibliographie
Description originale
R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution.
Bibliographie (117)
J. K. Juranek and K. Shimada. 2025. A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous Dakota Formation in Nebraska, USA, and its paleoecology and taphonomy. Cretaceous Research 169(106084) DOI ↗
Z. C. Kinzella, L. J. Cotton, and L. L. Delsett. 2025. New plesiosaur fossils from the Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) of Bornholm, including the first juvenile specimen from Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 74(23772):197-208 DOI ↗
M. E. Páramo-Fonseca, C. D. Benavides-Cabra, and H. D. Palma-Castro, A. J. Castañeda-Gómez. 2023. Procumbent anterior premaxillary teeth in Stenorhynchosaurus munozi (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae), evidence from new material. Earth Sciences Research Journal 27(1):1-9 DOI ↗
I. Meza-Velez and J. P. O'Gorman. 2021. El registro fósil de plesiosaurios (Diapsida, Sauropterygia) en el Perú. Revista peruana de biología 28(2):1-8 DOI ↗
N. G. Zverkov and E. M. Pervushov. 2020. A gigantic pliosaurid from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Volga Region, Russia. Cretaceous Research 110 DOI ↗
D. Madzia, S. Sachs, and J. Lindgren. 2018. Morphological and phylogenetic aspects of the dentition of Megacephalosaurus eulerti, a pliosaurid from the Turonian of Kansas, USA, with remarks on the cranial anatomy of the taxon. Geological Magazine 156(7):1201-1216 DOI ↗
J. P. O’Gorman, Z. Gasparini, and L. A. Spalletti. 2018. A new Pliosaurus species (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia: New insights on the Tithonian morphological disparity of mandibular symphyseal morphology. Journal of Paleontology 92(2):240-253 DOI ↗
M. E. Páramo-Fonseca, C. D. Benavides-Cabra, and I. E. Gutiérrez. 2018. A new large pliosaurid from the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of Sáchica, Boyacá, Colombia. Earth Sciences Research Journal 22(4):223-238 DOI ↗
V. Fischer, R. B. J. Benson, and N. G. Zverkov, L. C. Soul, M. S. Arkhangelsky, OLambert, I. M. Stenshin, G. N. Uspensky, P. S. Druckenmiller. 2017. Plasticity and convergence in the evolution of short-necked plesiosaurs. Current Biology 27:1-10 DOI ↗
S. Sachs and B. P. Kear. 2017. A rare new Pliensbachian plesiosaurian from the Amaltheenton Formation of Bielefeld in northwestern Germany. Alcheringa DOI ↗
D. Angst and N. Bardet. 2016. A new record of the pliosaur Brachauchenius lucasi Williston, 1903 (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) of Turonian (Late Cretaceous) age, Morocco. Geological Magazine 153(3):449-459 DOI ↗
M. E. Páramo-Fonseca, M. Gómez-Pérez, and L. F. Noé, F. Etayo-Serna. 2016. Stenorhynchosaurus munozi, gen. et sp. nov. a new pliosaurid from the Upper Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of Villa de Leiva, Colombia, South America. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 40(154):84-103 DOI ↗
O. W. M. Rauhut, T. R. Hübner, and K.-P. Lanser. 2016. A new megalosaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Middle Jurassic (Callovian) of north-western Germany: Implications for theropod evolution and faunal turnover in the Jurassic. Palaeontologia electronica 19(2):2A:1-65 DOI ↗
N. Bardet, V. Fischer, and M. Machalski. 2015. Large predatory marine reptiles from the Albian–Cenomanian of Annopol, Poland. Geological Magazine 153(1):1-16 DOI ↗
V. Fischer, M. S. Arkhangelsky, and I. M. Stenshin, G. N. Uspensky, N. G. Zverkov, R. B. J. Benson. 2015. Peculiar macrophagous adaptations in a new Cretaceous pliosaurid. Royal Society Open Science 2(150552) DOI ↗
A. Cau and F. Fanti. 2014. A pliosaurid (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation of Italy. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica DOI ↗
E. Frey and W. Stinnesbeck. 2014. Plesiosaurs, reptiles between grace and awe. Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico
Z. Gasparini and J. P. O'Gorman. 2014. A new species of Pliosaurus (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Ameghiniana 51(4):269-283 DOI ↗
B. P. Kear, B. Ekrt, and J. Prokop, G. L. Georgalis. 2014. Turonian marine amniotes from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic. Geological Magazine 151(1):183-198 DOI ↗
R. B. J. Benson, E. M. G. Fitzgerald, and T. H. Rich, P. Vickers Rich. 2013. Large freshwater plesiosaurian from the Cretaceous (Aptian) of Australia. Alcheringa DOI ↗
R. B. J. Benson, M. Evans, and A. S. Smith, J. Sassoon, S. Moore-Faye, H. F. Ketchum, R. Forrest. 2013. A giant pliosaurid skull from the Late Jurassic of England. PLoS ONE 8(5):e65989 DOI ↗
B. A. Schumacher, K. Carpenter, and M. J. Everhart. 2013. A new Cretaceous pliosaurid (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Carlile Shale (Middle Turonian) of Russell County, Kansas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(3):613-628 DOI ↗
P. Vincent, N. Bardet, and E. Mattioli. 2013. A new pliosaurid from the Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) of Normandy (Northern France). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica DOI ↗
M. T. Young. 2013. Filling the ‘Corallian Gap’: re-description of a metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) of Headington, England. Historical Biology DOI ↗
B. P. Kear. 2012. A revision of Australia's Jurassic plesiosaurs. Palaeontology 55(5):1125-1138 DOI ↗
E. M. Knutsen, P. S. Druckenmiller, and J. H. Hurum. 2012. A new species of Pliosaurus (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the Middle Volgian of central Spitsbergen, Norway. Norwegian Journal of Geology 92:235-258
D. Néraudeau, R. Allain, and M. Ballèvre, D. J. Batten, E. Buffetaut, J. P. Colin, M. P. Dabard, V. Daviero-Gomez, A. El Albani, B. Gomez, D. Grosheny, J. Le Loeuff, A. Leprince, C. Martín-Closas, E. Masure, J.-M. Mazin, M. Phillipe, J. Pouech, H. Tong, J. F. Tournepiche, R. Vullo. 2012. The Hautevarian–Barremian lignitic bone bed of Angeac (Charente, south-west France): stratigraphical, palaeobiological and palaeogeographical implications. Cretaceous Research 37(1):1-14 DOI ↗
A. Bell and M. J. Everhart. 2011. Remains of small ornithurine birds from a Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) microsite in Russell County, north-central Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 114(1-2):115-123 DOI ↗
R. B. J. Benson, H. F. Ketchum, and L. F. Noe, M. Gomez-Perez. 2011. New information on Hauffiosaurus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) based on a new species from the Alum Shale Member (Lower Toarcian: Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, UK. Palaeontology 54(3):547-571 DOI ↗
M. Gomez-Perez and L. E. Noe. 2011. Cranial anatomy of a new pliosaurid Acostasaurus pavachoquensis from the Lower Cretaceous of Colombia, South America. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 310(1-2):5-42
H. F. Ketchum and R. B. J. Benson. 2011. The cranial anatomy and taxonomy of Peloneustes philarchus (Sauropterygia, Pliosauridae) from the Peterborough Member (Callovian, Middle Jurassic) of the United Kingdom. Palaeontology 54(3):639-665 DOI ↗
H. F. Ketchum and R. B. J. Benson. 2011. A new pliosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Oxford CLay Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) of England: evidence for a gracile, longirostrine grade of Early-Middle Jurassic pliosaurids. Special Papers in Palaeontology 86:109-129
B. A. Schumacher. 2011. A ‘woollgari-zone mosasaur’ (Squamata; Mosasauridae) from the Carlile Shale (Lower Middle Turonian) of central Kansas and the stratigraphic overlap of early mosasaurs and pliosaurid plesiosaurs. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 114(1-2):1-14 DOI ↗
J. Bourdon and M. J. Everhart. 2010. Occurrence of the extinct carpet shark, Orectoloboides, in the Dakota Formation (Late Cretaceous; Middle Cenomanian) of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 113:237-242 DOI ↗
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 ↗
Z. Gasparini. 2009. A new Oxfordian pliosaurid (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae) in the Caribbean Seaway. Palaeontology 52(3):661-669 DOI ↗
R. Araujo, A. S. Smith, and J. Liston. 2008. Alfred Leeds fossil vertebrate collection of the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 26:17-32 DOI ↗
M.-C. Buchy. 2008. New occurrence of the genus Dakosaurus (Reptilia, Thalattosuchia) in the Upper Jurassic of north-eastern Mexico, with comments upon skull architecture of Dakosaurus and Geosaurus. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 249(1):1-8 DOI ↗
A. S. Smith. 2008. Plesiosaurs from the Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) of Bornholm, Denmark. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1213-1217 DOI ↗
L. B. Albright, D. D. Gillette, and A. L. Titus. 2007. Plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, part 1: new records of the pliosaur Brachauchenius lucasi. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):31-40 DOI ↗
Y. Lepage and J. Guyader. 2007. Le renouvellement des dents chez Liopleurodon macromerus (Phillips) 1871 : un exemple descriptif havrais (Normandie, France). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de ormandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre 94(1):9-23
M.-C. Buchy, W. Stinnesbeck, and A. H. Gonzalez Gonzalez. 2006. A new Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) marine vertebrate concentration Lagerstätte in north-eastern Mexico. 4th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (Hantkeniana) 5:17-19
M.-C. Buchy, E. Frey, and S. W. Salisbury, J. G. López-Olivia, M. Götte. 2006. An unusual pliosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of northeastern Mexico. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie. Abhandlungen 240(2):241-270 DOI ↗
M.-C. Buchy, E. Frey, and W. Stinnesback, J. G. Lopez-Oliva. 2006. An annotated catalogue of the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian and Tithonian) marine reptiles in the collections of the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra, Linares, Mexico. Oryctos 6:1-18
S. L. Cumbaa, C. Schröder-Adams, and R. G. Day, A. J. Phillips. 2006. Cenomanian bonebed faunas from the northeastern margin, Western Interior Seaway. Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:139-155
B. P. Kear. 2006. Plesiosaur remains from Cretaceous high-latitude non-marine deposits in southeastern Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(1):196-199 DOI ↗
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A. O. Averianov, E. N. Kurochkin, and E. M. Pervushov, A. V. Ivanov. 2005. Two bone fragments of ornithocheiroid pterosaurs from the Cenomanian of Volgograd Region, southern Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50(2):289-294
E. Buffetaut, C. Colletté, and B. Dubus, J.-L. Petit. 2005. The "sauropod" from the Albian of Mesnil-Saint-Père (Aube, France): a pliosaur, not a dinosaur. Carnets de Géologie/Notebooks on Geology - Letter 2005(1):1-5 DOI ↗
Z. Gasparini and M. Fernández. 2005. Jurassic marine reptiles of the Neuquen Basin: records, faunas, and their palaeobiogeographic significance. The Neuquen Basin, Argentina: A Case Study in Sequence Stratigraphy and Basin Dynamics; Geological Society, London, Special Publications 252:279-294 DOI ↗
O. Hampe. 2005. Considerations on a Brachauchenius skeleton (Pliosauroidea)from the lower Paja Formation (late Barremian) of Villa de Leyva area (Colombia). Mitteilungen des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 8:37-51 DOI ↗
B. P. Kear. 2005. Marine reptiles from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) deposits of White Cliffs, southeastern Australia: implications of a high latitude, cold water assemblage. Cretaceous Research 26(5):769-782 DOI ↗
B. A. Schumacher and M. J. Everhart. 2005. A stratigraphic and taxonomic review of plesiosaurs from the old "Fort Benton Group" of central Kansas: a new assessment of old records. Paludicola 5(2):33-54
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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 DOI ↗
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