Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae
Synonym: Tremamesacleis White 1940
Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1874. On Muraenosaurus leedsii, a plesiosaurian from the Oxford Clay, Part I. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 30:197-208
Parent taxon: Cryptoclididae according to R. B. J. Benson and P. S. Druckenmiller 2014
See also Andrews 1910, Brown 1981, Carpenter 1999, Carroll 1988, Delair 1960, Gasparini et al. 2002, Gasparini and Spalletti 1993, Hay 1930, Ketchum and Benson 2010, Lydekker 1889, O'Keefe 2001, O'Keefe 2004, Otero et al. 2012, Seeley 1892, Sepkoski 2002, Wegner 1914, Welles 1962 and White 1940
Sister taxa: Abyssosaurus, Colymbosaurus, Cryptoclidus, Cryptoclidus aldingeri, Djupedalia, Kimmerosaurus, Ophthalmothule, Pantosaurus, Picrocleidus, Spitrasaurus, Tatenectes, Tricleidus, Vinialesaurus
Subtaxa: Muraenosaurus elasmosauroides Muraenosaurus fahrenkohli Muraenosaurus leedsii Muraenosaurus purbecki
Type: Muraenosaurus leedsii
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Argentina (1 collection), France (1), the United Kingdom (6)
Total: 8 collections including 11 occurrences
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