Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae

Full reference: W. C. Knight. 1900. Some new Jurassic vertebrates. American Journal of Science, series 4 10:115-119

Belongs to Cimoliosaurus according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Knight 1900

Sister taxa: Brimosaurus grandis, Cimoliasaurus brevior, Cimoliasaurus maccoyi, Cimoliasaurus magnus, Cimoliosaurus magnus, Cimoliosaurus snowii

Type specimen: lost, a partial skeleton (numerous vertebrae and nearly a complete front limb). Its type locality is Near Freezeout Mountain(s) [PROXY], which is in an Oxfordian marine horizon in the Sundance Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cimoliosaurus laramiensis in the database

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