Uronautes Cope 1876 (plesiosaur)

Reptilia - Plesiosauria

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1876. On some extinct reptiles and Batrachia from the Judith River and Fox Hills Beds of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28:340-359

Parent taxon: Plesiosauria according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Hay 1902, Sepkoski 2002 and Williston 1903

Sister taxa: Aptychodon, Aptychodon cretaceus, Bathyspondylus, Cimoliasaurus lissaensis, Cimoliasaurus teplicensis, Cimoliosaurus nazarowi, Discosaurus planior, Discosaurus vetustus, Elasmosaurus intermedius, Elasmosaurus orientalis, Embaphias, Embaphias circulosus, Eoplesiosaurus, Eretmosaurus, Gymocetus, Hexatarsostinus, Hunosaurus fasseli, Iserosaurus littoralis, Lindwurmia, Lutkesaurus, Mauisaurus brachiolatus, Megalneusaurus, Namuncurania, Neoplesiosauria, Nothosaurops, Oligosimus, Oligosimus grandaevus, Orophosaurus, Orophosaurus pauciporus, Peloneustes kanzleri, Piptomerus, Piptomerus hexagonus, Piptomerus megaloporus, Piptomerus microporus, Piratosaurus, Piratosaurus plicatus, Plesiosauriformes, Plesiosauroidea, Plesiosaurus affinis, Plesiosaurus australis, Plesiosaurus balticus, Plesiosaurus bernardi, Plesiosaurus brachistospondylus, Plesiosaurus brevifemur, Plesiosaurus brevis, Plesiosaurus continuus, Plesiosaurus cycnodeirus, Plesiosaurus degenhardti, Plesiosaurus ellipsospondylus, Plesiosaurus euryspondylus, Plesiosaurus gouldii, Plesiosaurus hexagonalis, Plesiosaurus infraplanus, Plesiosaurus latispinus, Plesiosaurus levis, Plesiosaurus lockwoodii, Plesiosaurus megapleuron, Plesiosaurus microdeirus, Plesiosaurus mudgei, Plesiosaurus neocomiensis, Plesiosaurus nordmanni, Plesiosaurus ophiodeirus, Plesiosaurus pachyomus, Plesiosaurus phillipsi, Plesiosaurus planispondylus, Plesiosaurus planus, Plesiosaurus planus trigonalis, Plesiosaurus platydeirus, Plesiosaurus poecilospondylus, Plesiosaurus shirleyensis, Plesiosaurus subdepressus, Plesiosaurus traversii, Plesiosaurus truncatus, Plesiosaurus validus, Plesiosaurus winspitensis, Pliosauroidea, Pliosaurus planus, Plistosauroidea, Polycotylus donicus, Polycotylus epigurgitis, Polycotylus orientalis, Polycotylus tenuis, Polycotylus ultimus, Polyptychodon, Polyptychodon neocomiensis, Rhaeticosaurus, Rhomaleosauridae, Scarrisaurus, Stereosaurus cratynotus, Stereosaurus platyomus, Stereosaurus stenomus, Stratesaurus, Sulmosaurus, Taphrosaurus, Teleosaurus neogaeus, Uronautes cetiformis, Xenopsaria, Zahrisaurus

Subtaxa: none

Type: Uronautes cetiformis

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Uronautes in the database

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