- Plesiosauroidea, so it was
renamed Leptocleidia by
Hilary F.
Ketchum and
Roger B. J.
Benson (2010) to
avoid confusion with ranks.
Leptocleidia is a node-based taxon...
-
phylogeny of
plesiosaurs yet, they
moved the
Leptocleidoidea (renamed the
Leptocleidia) back into the
Plesiosauroidea as the
sister group of the Elasmosauridae;...
-
recovered Scalamagnus as a
polycotylid member of the
plesiosaur clade Leptocleidia, as the
sister taxon to the
clade formed by
Trinacromerum and the Dolichorhynchia...
-
Leptocleidia...
- analysis. However,
Ketchum and Benson's
analysis instead included it in the
Leptocleidia, and its
inclusion in that
group has
remained consistent in subsequent...
-
recovered Martinectes as a
polycotylid member of the
plesiosaur clade Leptocleidia, as the
sister taxon to an
unnamed polycotyline from the
Niobrara Formation...
-
recovered Unktaheela as a
polycotylid member of the
plesiosaur clade Leptocleidia, as the
sister taxon to the
clade formed by
Martinectes and an unnamed...
- class:
Reptilia Superorder: †Sauropterygia Order: †Plesiosauria Clade: †
Leptocleidia Family: †Polycotylidae Williston, 1909
Genera †Edgarosaurus †Manemergus...
-
Leptocleidia...
- and
numerous interminate representatives. Some
representatives of the
Leptocleidia clade,
which includes Leptocleididae and Polycotylidae, are known. Leptocleids...
