Name - Pliosauroidea

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:615688 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Pliosauroidea Welles 1943

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Superfamily

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Sea dragons: predators of the prehistoric oceans.
• A pliosaur travels: the packaging of a unique Cretaceous marine reptile, and its transport from Colombia to the United Kingdom.
• A new Oxfordian pliosaurid (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae) in the Caribbean seaway.
• Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses.
• Arthritic, scavenged and largely abandoned: the curious tale of a giant pliosaur from the Kimmeridge Clay at Stretham, Cambridgeshire, UK.

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