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Picrocleidus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superorder
  
†Sauropterygia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Plesiosauria

Class
  
Reptilia

Family
  
†Cryptoclididae

Rank
  
Genus

Picrocleidus

Similar
  
Sthenarosaurus, Lusonectes, Plesiopterys, Avalonnectes

Picrocleidus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur. It is known only from the type species P. beloclis from the Middle Jurassic Oxford Clay Formation (Callovian stage) of the United Kingdom.

References

Picrocleidus Wikipedia