Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Microcleididae

Alternative combination: Plesiosaurus macropterus

Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1865. On Plesiosaurus macropterus, a new species from the Lias of Whitby. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 3 16:352-359

Belongs to Microcleidus according to D. M. S. Watson 1911

See also Seeley 1869, Tate and Blake 1876 and Watson 1909

Sister taxa: Microcleidus brachypterygius, Microcleidus homalospondylus, Microcleidus melusinae, Microcleidus tournemirensis

Type specimen: CAMSM J.35182, a skeleton (almost complete skeleton)

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Whitby, marine reptiles (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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