Cryptoclidus

Cryptoclidus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic (Callovian to Oxfordian),
Cast of a fossil skeleton, University of Tübingen
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Sauropterygia
Order: Plesiosauria
Family: Cryptoclididae
Subfamily: Cryptoclidinae
Genus: Cryptoclidus
Seeley, 1892
Type species
Cryptoclidus eurymerus
Phillips, 1871
Species
  • C. eurymerus Phillips 1871 (type)
  • C. richardsoni Lydekker 1889
Synonyms
  • Apractocleidus Smellie 1915

Cryptoclidus (/krɪptˈkldəs/ krip-toh-KLY-dəs) is a genus of plesiosaur reptile from the Middle Jurassic period of England, France, and Cuba.

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