Cryptoclidus

Cryptoclidus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic (Callovian to Oxfordian), 166–160 Ma
Cast of a fossil skeleton, University of Tübingen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Sauropterygia
Order: Plesiosauria
Family: Cryptoclididae
Subfamily: Cryptoclidinae
Genus: Cryptoclidus
Seeley, 1892
Type species
Cryptoclidus eurymerus
Phillips, 1871
Species[1]
  • C. eurymerus Phillips, 1871 (type)
  • C. richardsoni Lydekker, 1889
Synonyms
  • Apractocleidus Smellie, 1915
  • Plesiosaurus eurymerus Phillips, 1871

Cryptoclidus (/krɪptˈkldəs/ krip-toh-KLY-dəs) is a genus of plesiosaur reptile from the Middle Jurassic period of England, France, and Cuba.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference B81 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Brown, David S., and Arthur RI Cruickshank. The skull of the Callovian plesiosaur Cryptoclidus eurymerus, and the sauropterygian cheek. Archived 2014-03-24 at the Wayback Machine Palaeontology 37.4 (1994): 941.