Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Polycotylidae
Full reference: L. B. Albright, D. D. Gillette, and A. L. Titus. 2007. Plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, part 2: Polycotylidae; replacement names for the preoccupied genus Palmula and the subfamily Palmulainae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):1051-1051
Parent taxon: Polycotylidae according to L. B. Albright et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Ceraunosaurus, Cimoliasaurus leucoscopelus, Edgarosaurus, Manemergus, Mauriciosaurus, Pahasapasaurus, Palmulainae, Plesiopleurodon, Polycotyilnae, Polycotylinae, Sulcusuchus, Thililua, Polycotylus brevispondylus, Polycotylus ichthyospondylus tanais
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Palmulasaurinae in the database