Another reptile groupPlesiosaurCarnivore
Yuzhoupliosaurus
Sea reptiles that swam with four large flippers, many with very long necks. Pliosaurs are a branch of the group with short necks and big heads, the top predators of their seas.
Who it is related to: Part of the Sauropterygia, a branch of reptiles separate from the dinosaurs.
This page has only the scientific data from the databases; there is no hand-written description yet.
Scientific details
- Group
- Plesiosaurs
- Family
- Rhomaleosauridae
- When it lived
- 161.5–174.7 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Aalenian – Callovian
- Named by
- Sepkoski, 2002
- Fossil occurrences
- 1 sites
Countries with fossils
- China
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata