Plesiosaurids Temporal range: Early Jurassic -
Late Cretaceous?
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Plesiosaurus skeleton | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | † Sauropterygia |
Order: | † Plesiosauria |
Superfamily: | † Plesiosauroidea |
Family: | †
Plesiosauridae Gray, 1825 |
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The Plesiosauridae are a monophyletic family of plesiosaurs named by John Edward Gray in 1825. [1] [2]