Pachycostasaurus

Pachycostasaurus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
Holotype fossil, Peterborough Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Sauropterygia
Order: Plesiosauria
Family: Pliosauridae
Genus: Pachycostasaurus
Cruickshank et al., 1996
Species:
P. dawni
Binomial name
Pachycostasaurus dawni
Cruickshank et al., 1996

Pachycostasaurus (meaning 'thick-ribbed lizard') is an extinct Pliosauroid from the Oxford Clay formation of Peterborough, England.