Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Full reference: S. P. Welles. 1943. Elasmosaurid plesiosaurs with description of new material from California and Colorado. Memoirs of the University of California 13:125-254
Parent taxon: Elasmosauridae according to J. P. O'Gorman 2016
See also Carroll 1988, Sepkoski 2002, Welles 1943, Welles 1949 and Welles 1962
Sister taxa: Alexeyisaurus, Alzadasaurinae, Alzadasaurus kansasensis, Alzadasaurus tropicus, Callawayasaurus, Callowayosaurus, Cardiocorax, Chubutinectes, Cimoliasaurus, Cimoliasaurus andium, Cimoliasaurus cantabrigiensis, Cimoliasaurus caudalis, Elasmosaurus amalitskii, Elasmosaurus kurskensis, Elasmosaurus orskensis, Elasmosaurus serdobensis, Elasmosaurus sternbergi, Eromangasaurus, Euelasmosaurida, Fluvionectes, Gronausaurus, Jucha, Lagenanectes, Leivanectes, Leurospondylus, Mauisaurus gardneri, Plesiosaurus constrictus, Plesiosaurus crassicostatus, Plesiosaurus gulo, Plesiosaurus gurgitis, Plesiosaurus helmersenii, Plesiosaurus holmesii, Plesiosaurus hoodii, Plesiosaurus mackayii, Plesiosaurus mauritanicus, Plesiosaurus sutherlandi, Pliosaurus gigas, Pliosaurus macrospondylus, Scanisaurus, Stereosaurus, Thalassiosaurus, Thalassiosaurus ischiadicus, Thalassonomosaurus, Thalassonomosaurus nobilis, Wapuskanectes, Weddellonectia, Woolungasaurus, Woolungasaurus glendowerensis, Zarafasaura, Brimosaurus
Subtaxa: Fresnosaurus drescheri
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at LACM (CIT) 346 (Cretaceous of California)
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