Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Leptocleididae
Synonym: Nichollsia Druckenmiller and Russell 2008 [replaced name]
Full reference: P. S. Druckenmiller and A. P. Russell. 2009. The new plesiosaurian genus Nichollssaura from Alberta, Canada: replacement name for the preoccupied genus Nichollsia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(1):276-276
Parent taxon: Leptocleididae according to R. B. J. Benson and P. S. Druckenmiller 2014
See also Druckenmiller and Russell 2008, Druckenmiller and Russell 2009 and Ketchum and Benson 2010
Sister taxa: Brancasaurus, Hastanectes, Leptocleidus, Umoonasaurus, Vectocleidus
Subtaxa: Nichollssaura borealis
Type: Nichollssaura borealis
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Base Mine, Syncrude (Cretaceous of Alberta)
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