Cryptoclididae
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Cryptoclididae is a family of medium-sized plesiosaurs that existed from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. They had long necks, broad and short skulls and densely packed teeth. They fed on
Cryptoclidus eurymerus Tubingen
Life restoration of Muraenosaurus
Placochelys BW
Nothosaurus BW
Plesiosauroidea
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Plesiosauroidea is an extinct clade of carnivorous marine reptiles. They have the snake-like longest neck to body ratio of any reptile. Plesiosauroids are known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous period
Cryptoclididae
…Tuebingen Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Superorder: †Sauropterygia Order: †Plesiosauria Superfamily: †Plesiosauroidea Clade: †Cryptoclidia Family: †Cryptoclididae Williston, 1925 Genera †Opallionectes? Colymbosaurinae †Abyssosaurus †Colymbosaurus †Djupedalia †Ophthalmothule…
Dolichorhynchops
Paleo Hall at HMNS plesiosaur
Traskasaura
Autograph letter concerning the discovery of Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus (NHMUK PV OR 22656), from Mary Anning.