Microcleidus
Sign in to saveMicrocleidus is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile belonging to the Plesiosauroidea. The species has 40 neck vertebrae and a short tail of 28 vertebrae. Fossils of the genus have been found in France, the Posidonia Shale in Germany and Luxembourg, and the Alum Shale Formation of England.
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Microcleidus is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile belonging to the Plesiosauroidea. The species has 40 neck vertebrae and a short tail of 28 vertebrae. Fossils of the genus have been found in France, the Posidonia Shale in Germany and Luxembourg, and the Alum Shale Formation of England.
==Description== thumb|left|Restoration of M. homalospondylus The type species, M. homalospondylus, was the largest, measuring long and weighing . Other species were smaller: M. tournemirensis was about long and weighed , and M. melusinae was about long and weighed .
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