Cimoliasauridae

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Cimoliasauridae
Fossil range: Jurassic-Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Plesiosauria
Suborder: Plesiosauroidea
Family: Cimoliasauridae
Persson, 1960
Genera

Aristonectes
Cimoliasaurus
Scanisaurus
Kimmerosaurus

The Cimoliasauridae are a poorly known family of plesiosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous.

Aristonectes parvidens
Aristonectes parvidens

They were characterised by a relatively larger head and shorter neck than the Plesiosauridae and Elasmosauridae. Teeth resemble those of the Plesiosauridae. The group is known only from scanty and fragmentary remains.

[edit] References

  • Persson, Per Ove 1960. Lower Cretaceous plesiosaurians (Rept.) from Australia. Lunds Unveristets Arsskrift 56 (12): 12-23.
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