Leptocleidus
Sign in to saveLeptocleidus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur, belonging to the family Leptocleididae. It was a small plesiosaur, measuring only up to in length.
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Vinony's link graph records 252 inbound references to Leptocleidus, and connects out to Elasmosauridae, Pliosauridae and Cryptoclididae.
Vinony files it under Early Cretaceous plesiosaurs, Early Cretaceous plesiosaurs of Europe and Early Cretaceous reptiles of Australia.
Vinony links it to 16 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Leptocleididae
- Image
- Leptocleidus1DB.jpg
- Length
- 3
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- taxon name
- Leptocleidus
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Leptocleidus
- start time
- 140000000-
- end time
- 125000000-
- location of discovery
- British Isles
- time period
- Cretaceous
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Discovery
- Description
- Classification
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Leptocleidus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur, belonging to the family Leptocleididae. It was a small plesiosaur, measuring only up to in length.
==Discovery==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leptocleidus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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