Kingdom Animalia Superorder †Sauropterygia Phylum Chordata | Class Reptilia Superfamily †Plesiosauroidea Order Plesiosauria | |
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Clade †Cryptoclidia
Ketchum and Benson, 2010 Similar Cryonectes, Sthenarosaurus, Lusonectes | ||
Cryptoclidia is a clade of plesiosaurs.
Cryptoclidia was named and defined as a node clade in 2010 by Hilary Ketchum and Roger Benson: the group consisting of the last common ancestor of Cryptoclidus eurymerus and Polycotylus latipinnis; and all its descendants.
The following cladogram follows an analysis by Benson & Druckenmiller (2014).
References
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