Picrocleidus
| Picrocleidus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Cryptoclididae |
| Genus: | †Picrocleidus Seeley, 1892 |
| Type species | |
| †Picrocleidus beloclis Seeley, 1892
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Picrocleidus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur. It is known only from the type species P. beloclis from the Middle Jurassic Oxford Clay Formation (Callovian stage) of the United Kingdom.[1][2]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Benson, R. B. J.; Druckenmiller, P. S. (2013). "Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition". Biological Reviews. 89 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1111/brv.12038. PMID 23581455. S2CID 19710180.
- ^ Andrews, Charles W 1910. A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford Clay, Part 2. British Museum (Nat. Soc.) 13:139-149.
Categories:
- Middle Jurassic plesiosaurs of Europe
- Fossil taxa described in 1892
- Cryptoclidids
- Taxa named by Harry Seeley
- Sauropterygian genera