Leptocleidus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur,[1] belonging to the family Leptocleididae.[2] It was a small plesiosaur, measuring only up to 3 m (9.8 ft).[3]
^Ketchum, H. F.; Benson, R. B. J. (2010). "Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses". Biological Reviews. 85 (2): 361–392. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00107.x. PMID 20002391. S2CID 12193439.
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a "Leptocleidus sp.", was named as a separate genus Vectocleidus in 2012. With large clavicles and interclavicle and small scapulae, Leptocleidus resembled...
as "all taxa more closely related to Pliosaurus brachydeirus than to Leptocleidus superstes, Polycotylus latipinnis or Meyerasaurus victor". Rhomaleosauridae...
as "all taxa more closely related to Pliosaurus brachydeirus than to Leptocleidus superstes, Polycotylus latipinnis or Meyerasaurus victor". The family...
Dinosaurs Tetanurae indet. Theropoda indet. Sauropterygia Leptocleidus clemai Leptocleidus sp. List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations List of stratigraphic...
Plesiosauria (Sauropterygia) and its bearing on the systematic status of Leptocleidus Andrews, 1922". Zootaxa. 1863: 1–120. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1863.1.1....
Russell moved the Polycotylidae back into the Pliosauroidea, and placed Leptocleidus as their sister group in the newly named Leptocleidoidea; Adam Smith...
assigned to Umoonasaurus were thought to represent a new species of Leptocleidus. In 2006, Kear and colleagues found Umoonasaurus to belong to the superfamily...
211-273 "Reassessment of the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) pliosauroid Leptocleidus superstes Andrews, 1922 and other plesiosaur remains from the nonmarine...
Leptocleidia is a node-based taxon which was defined by Ketchum and Benson as "Leptocleidus superstes, Polycotylus latipinnis, their most recent common ancestor...
Albian stage). They had small bodies with small heads and short necks. Leptocleidus and Umoonasaurus had round bodies and triangle-shaped heads. Leptocleidids...
Plesiosauria (Sauropterygia) and its bearing on the systematic status of Leptocleidus Andrews, 1922 (PDF). Vol. 1863. Zootaxa. pp. 1–120. doi:10.11646/zootaxa...
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