Polycotylus suprajurensis Sauvage 1876 (plesiosaur)

Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Polycotylidae

Full reference: H.-E. Sauvage. 1876. Notes sur les reptiles fossiles [Notes on fossil reptiles]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 4:435-444

Belongs to Polycotylus according to H.-E. Sauvage 1876

Sister taxa: Polycotylus latipinnis, Polycotylus sopozkoi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Boulogne-sur-Mer (general), which is in a Kimmeridgian marine horizon in the Argiles de Châtillon Formation of France

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Boulogne-sur-Mer (general)

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