| Source Data | |
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| Rank | superfamily (PBDB) |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Sauropterygia : Pliosauroidea |
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Classification
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Pliosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Plesiosauria | stated without evidence | Welles, 1943 | | Pliosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Plesiosauria | stated with evidence | Welles, 1962 | | Pliosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Plesiosauria | stated without evidence | Thurmond and Jones, 1981 | | Pliosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Plesiosauria | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Pliosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Plesiosauria | stated without evidence | Bardet et al., 1991 | | Pliosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Plesiosauria | stated with evidence | O'Keefe, 2001 | | Pliosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Plesiosauria | stated without evidence | Schumacher and Everhart, 2005 | | Pliosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Neoplesiosauria | stated with evidence | Ketchum and Benson, 2010 | | Pliosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Plesiosauria | stated with evidence | Ketchum and Benson, 2011 | | Pliosauroidea | superfamily | belongs to Plesiosauria | stated without evidence | Gomez-Perez and Noe, 2011 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 190 - 183 Ma
Early Jurassic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 99.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Environment | marine (based on Pliosauroidea) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Pliosauroidea) |
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| Diet | carnivore (based on Pliosauroidea) |
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| Reproduction | dispersal=direct/internal (based on Pliosauroidea) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite (based on Pliosauroidea) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution |
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| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Seeley H. G. The Nature of the Shoulder Girdle and Clavicular Arch in Sauropterygia, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 51, 119-151 |
| Delair J. B. (1960) The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80, 52-90 |
| Welles S. P. (1962) A new species of elasmosaur from the Aptian of Colombia and a review of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 44 1, 1-96 |
| Persson P. O. (1963) A revision of the classification of the Plesiosauria, with a synopsis of the stratigraphical and geographical distribution of the group, Lunds Universitets Arsskrift N. F. Serie 2 59 1, 1-57 |
| Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154 |
| Brown D. S. (1981) The English Upper Jurassic Plesiosauroidea (Reptilia) and a review of the phylogeny and classification of the Plesiosauria, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 35 4, 253-347 |
| Thurmond J. T., Jones D. E. (1981) , Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama, 1-244 |
| Bardet N., Mazin J. -M., et al (1991) Les Plesiosauria du Jurassique supérieur de la province de Kachchh (Inde), Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences. Série 2, Mécanique, Physique, Chimie, Sciences de l'univers, Sciences de la Terre 313 11, 1343-1347 |
| Gasparini Z., Spaletti L. (1993) First Callovian plesiosaurs from the Neuquen Basin, Argentina, Ameghiniana 30 3, 245-254 |
| Carpenter K. (1996) A review of short-necked plesiosaurs of the Western Interior, North America, Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 201 2, 259-287 |
| Gasparini Z. (1997) A new pliosaur from the Bajocian of the Neuquen Basin, Argentina, Palaeontology 40 1, 135-147 |
| O'Keefe F. R. (2001) A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia), Acta Zoologica Fennica 213, 1-63 |
| Schumacher B. A., Everhart M. J. (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 |
| 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, 361-392 doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00107.x |
| Ketchum H. F., Benson R. B. J. (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 |
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