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Sauropterygia--> Eosauropterygia--> Eusauropterygia--> Pistosauroidea--> Plesiosauria--> Pliosauroidea--> Brachauchenidae
The family Brachauchenidae has been proposed to include derived pliosaurs which have very short necks and lack nutritive foramina on the vertebrae. Known Brachaucheniids are restricted to the Cretaceous and genera include Brachauchenius and Kronosaurus. Characteristics:
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The skeletons in the site header are (from left to right): Kronosaurus (in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge), Thalassomedon (in the American Museum of Natural History, New York), Cryptoclidus (In the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow), Rhomaleosaurus (in the Natural History Museum, London), Dolichorhynchops (in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Washington) and Thalassiodracon (in the Natural History Museum, London).
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