Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Polycotylidae
Full reference: B. A. Schumacher. 2007. A new polycotylid plesiosaur (Reptilia; Sauropterygia) from the Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous; lower upper Cenomanian), Black Hills, South Dakota. Geological Society of America Special Paper 427:133-146
Parent taxon: Polycotylidae according to B. A. Schumacher 2007
Sister taxa: Ceraunosaurus, Cimoliasaurus leucoscopelus, Edgarosaurus, Manemergus, Mauriciosaurus, Palmulainae, Palmulasaurinae, Plesiopleurodon, Polycotyilnae, Polycotylinae, Sulcusuchus, Thililua, Polycotylus ichthyospondylus tanais, Polycotylus brevispondylus
Subtaxa: Pahasapasaurus haasi
Type: Pahasapasaurus haasi
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Maloney Creek (Pahasapasaurus type locality) (Cretaceous of South Dakota)
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