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Contact

About the author
Email: plesiosauria@gmail.com
Follow: @adamstuartsmith

Higher taxa

  • Sauropterygia
  • Eosauropterygia
  • Eusauropterygia
  • Pachypleurosauria
  • Nothosauria
  • Pistosauroidea
  • Pistosauria
  • Plesiosauria
  • Pliosauroidea
  • Plesiosauroidea

Families

  • Aristonectidae
  • Brachauchenidae
  • Cimoliasauridae
  • Cryptoclididae
  • Elasmosauridae
  • Leptocleididae
  • Microcleididae
  • Plesiosauridae
  • Pliosauridae
  • Polycotylidae
  • Rhomaleosauridae

Genera

The genera section is under construction, active pages are indicated by an asterisk

  • Alexeyisaurus
  • Alzadosaurus
  • Aphrosaurus
  • *'Apractocleidus'
  • *Archaeonectrus
  • *Aristonectes
  • *Attenborosaurus
  • Augustasaurus
  • Bathyspondylus
  • Bishanopliosaurus
  • *Bobosaurus
  • Borealonectes
  • Brachauchenius
  • *Brancasaurus
  • Callawayasaurus
  • 'Cimoliasaurus'
  • Claudiosaurus
  • Colymbosaurus
  • *Cryptoclidus
  • Cymatosaurus
  • Dactylosaurus
  • Dolichorhynchops
  • *Edgarosaurus
  • *Elasmosaurus
  • Eopolycotylus
  • *Eretmosaurus
  • Eromangasaurus
  • Eurycleidus
  • Fresnosaurus
  • Futabasaurus = 'Futabasuzukiryu'
  • Gallardosaurus
  • Georgiasaurus
  • *Hauffiosaurus
  • Hydralmosaurus
  • Hydrorion
  • Hydrotherosaurus
  • *Kaiwhekea
  • Kimmerosaurus
  • *Kronosaurus
  • *Leptocleidus
  • Leurospondylus
  • *Libonectes
  • *Liopleurodon
  • *Lusonectes
  • *Macroplata
  • *Manemergus
  • *Maresaurus
  • *Marmornectes
  • Mauisaurus
  • Megalneusaurus
  • *Meyerasaurus
  • Microcleidus
  • Morenosaurus
  • *'Morturneria'
  • Muraenosaurus
  • Nichollssaura
  • *Occitanosaurus
  • *'Ogmodirus'
  • Opallionectes
  • *Pachycostasaurus
  • Pahasapasaurus
  • Palmulasaurus
  • Pantosaurus
  • Peloneustes
  • Pistosaurus
  • Plesiopleurodon
  • Plesiopterys
  • *Plesiosaurus
  • Pliosaurus
  • Polycotylus
  • Polyptychodon
  • *Rhomaleosaurus
  • Seeleyosaurus
  • Scanisaurus
  • *Simolestes
  • Sthenarosaurus
  • 'Stretosaurus'
  • Strongylokrotaphus
  • Styxosaurus
  • Sulcusuchus
  • Tatenectes
  • Terminonatator
  • *Thalassiodracon
  • *Thalassomedon
  • 'Thaumatosaurus'
  • *Thililua
  • Trememesacleis'
  • *Tricleidus
  • Trinacromerum
  • Tuarangisaurus
  • Umoonasaurus
  • Vinialesaurus
  • Wapuskanectes
  • Westphaliasaurus
  • Woolungasaurus
  • Yuzhoupliosaurus
  • Zarafasaura

Galleries

The galleries are divided into several categories

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Photographs gallery

This gallery contains photographs of skeletons and bones on display in museums, and photographs taken in museum collections or in the field.

Reconstructions gallery

This gallery contains illustrative reconstructions of bones and skeletons, and also photographs of 3D life restorations

Life restorations gallery

This gallery contains life restorations illustrative reconstructions of bones and skeletons.

Toys gallery

This gallery contains photographs of toys

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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).

©2011 Copyright Adam S. Smith. This site opened in June 2001. Last updated January 2012.