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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

Stratigraphy

Page under construction

Chronostratigraphy of the Mesozoic era.

Cretaceous

Upper

Maastrichtian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Keuper (Mid Ladinian - End Carnian). Muschelkalk (mid Anisian - mid Ladinian). Buntsandstein (Scythian - mid Anisian))

Campanian

Santonian

Coniacian

Turonian

Cenomanian

Lower

Albian

Aptian

Barremian

Hauterivian

Valanginian

Berriasian

Jurassic

Upper

Tithonian

Kimmeridgian

Oxfordian

Middle

Callovian

Bathonian

Bajocian

Aalenian

Lower

Toarcian

Pliensbachian

Sinemurian

Hettangian

Triassic

Upper

Rhaetian

Norian

Carnian

Middle

Ladinian

Anisian

Lower

Scythian

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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.