| Stratesaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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| Holotype of Stratesaurus taylori | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Rhomaleosauridae |
| Genus: | †Stratesaurus Benson, Evans & Druckenmiller, 2012 |
| Type species | |
| †Stratesaurus taylori Benson, Evans & Druckenmiller, 2012
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Stratesaurus is an extinct genus of small-bodied rhomaleosaurid plesiosaur known from the Early Jurassic period (most likely earliest Hettangian stage) of the United Kingdom. It contains a single species, S. taylori.[1] It was a small plesiosaur, with a skull length of 18 cm (7.1 in) and a body length of 2 m (6.6 ft).[1][2]
- ^ a b Roger B. J. Benson; Mark Evans; Patrick S. Druckenmiller (2012). "High Diversity, Low Disparity and Small Body Size in Plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary". PLOS ONE. 7 (3). e31838. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...731838B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031838. PMC 3306369. PMID 22438869.
- ^ Roger B J. Benson; Mark Evans; Michael A. Taylor (2015). "The anatomy of Stratesaurus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the lowermost Jurassic of Somerset, United Kingdom". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (4). e933739. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.933739.