Cryptoclidia
| Cryptoclidia Temporal range: Middle Jurassic-Late Cretaceous,
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| Skeleton of Thililua longicollis, National Museum of Nature and Science | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Plesiosauroidea |
| Clade: | †Cryptoclidia Ketchum and Benson, 2010 |
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Cryptoclidia is a clade of plesiosaurs.
Cryptoclidia was named and defined as a node clade in 2010 by and : the group consisting of the last common ancestor of Cryptoclidus eurymerus and Polycotylus latipinnis; and all its descendants.[1]
The following cladogram follows an analysis by Benson & Druckenmiller (2014).[2]
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References[]
- ^ Ketchum, H.F.; Benson, R.B.J. (2010). "Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses". Biological Reviews. 85 (2): 361–392. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00107.x. PMID 20002391.
- ^ Benson, R. B. J.; Druckenmiller, P. S. (2013). "Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition". Biological Reviews. 89: 1–23. doi:10.1111/brv.12038. PMID 23581455.
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