Kingdom Animalia Superorder †Sauropterygia Clade †Thalassophonea Rank Genus | Class Reptilia Family †Pliosauridae Phylum Chordata Order Plesiosauria | |
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Similar Peloneustes, Plesiosauria, Maresaurus, Hauffiosaurus, Archaeonectrus | ||
Paleo speedsketching test 36 simolestes
Simolestes (meaning "hearkening thief") is an extinct pliosaurid genus that lived in the Middle to Late Jurassic. Fossils have been found in England, France and India.
Contents
Simolestes could exceed 10m in length.
Classification
The cladogram below follows a 2011 analysis by paleontologists Hilary F. Ketchum and Roger B. J. Benson, and reduced to genera only.
References
Simolestes Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA