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Dolichosaurus

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Kingdom
  
Class
  
Sauropsida

Suborder
  
Scleroglossa

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Family
  
Dolichosauridae

Dolichosaurus

Dolichosaurus (meaning "long lizard") is an extinct genus of marine squamate of the Upper Cretaceous Cenomanian chalk deposits of England. Sister-group relationships between coniasaurs, dolichosaurs, Aigialosauridae and Mosasauridae are an unresolved polytomy. The paleobiology of Dolichosaurus is reconstructed as similar to coniasaurs, nothosaurs, and modern sea snakes.

References

Dolichosaurus Wikipedia


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