†Cryptoclidia (original) (raw)

After O'Keefe, 2001, 2004, and O'Keefe & Street, 2009

**<==**o †Cryptoclidia Williston, 1925 sensu Ketchum & Benson, 2010 [Cryptoclidoidea Williston, 1925 sensu O'Keefe, 2001] |-- †Cryptoclididae Williston, 1925 sensu O'Keefe, 2001 [incl. “Mureanosauridae”] --o †Tricleidia O'Keefe, 2001 |-- †_Tricleidus seeleyi_ Andrews 1909 [is a "[Mureanosaurid](elasmosauroidea.html#Mureanosauridae)"] |--o †Aristonectidae O'Keefe & Street, 2009 [Cimoliasauridae DeLair, 1959 _sensu_ O'Keefe, 2001 [problematic, family-name based on invalid genus]] | |?- †_Abyssosaurus nataliae_ Berezin, 2011 | |?- †_Aristonectes parvidens_ Cabrera, 1941 [[see taxomonic notes of _Aristonectes_](history%5FAristonectes.html)] [is an [Elasmosaurid](elasmosauridae.html) (Gasparini et al., 2003; Ketchum & Benson, 2010)] | |?- †_Tatenectes laramiensis_ (Knight, 1900) O'Keefe & Wahl, 2003 [_Cimoliasaurus laramensis_ Knight, 1900; _Tricleidus_? _laramensis_ Knight, 1900; Mehl, 1912] | |-- †_Kaiwhekea katiki_ Cruickshank & Fordyce, 2002 | --+-- †Morturneria seymourensis (Chatterjee & Small, 1989) Chatterjee & Creisler, 1994 [see taxonomic notes of Morturneria] | --+-- †“Cimoliasauridae” _genera_ et _species_ indet. [O'Keefe, 2004] [Wyoming Taxon 1] | -- †Kimmerosaurus langhami Brown, 1981 [=? Colymbosaurus] `-- †Polycotylidae Williston, 1909 [non? Cope, 1869] sensu O'Keefe, 2001 [Dolichorhynchopidae Welles, 1962]

Cryptoclidoidea incertae sedis:

†_Apractocleides aldingeri_ [synonym of _Cryptocleidus_, I'm not sure which species]
†_Apractocleides teretipes_ Smellie, 1915 [synonym of _Cryptocleidus_, I'm not sure which species]
†_Ceraumosaurus brownorum_ Thurmond, 1968 [is a polycotylid (Forrest, 2002)]
†_Scanisaurus nazarowi_ (Bogolubov, 1911) Persson, 1959 [nomen dubium]
†_Cimoliasaurus_ Leidy, 1851 [nomen dubium]
    †_C. planus_
    †_C. magnus_ Leidy, 1851
    †_C. maccoyi_ Etheridge, 1904 

| After Berezin, 2011 **<==**o †Aristonectidae |--+-- †Tatenectes | `-- †Kimmerosaurus_ `--+--+-- †_Abyssosaurus | `-- †Cimoliasaurus magnus_ `--+-- †_Kaiwhekea `-- †Aristonectes_ Reference(s): Berezin, A., 2011: A new plesiosaur of the family Aristonectidae from the Early Cretaceous of the center of the Russian platform.–Paleontological Journal: Vol. 45, #6, pp. 648-660 [**doi: 10.1134/s0031030111060037**] | After Ketchum & Benson, 2010 **<==**o †Cryptoclidia |--o †Cryptocleididae | | --+-- †Cryptoclidus | | `-- †_Kimmerosaurus | `--+-- †Mureanosaurus_ | `-- †_Tricleidus `--o †Leptocleidia | -- †Leptocleididae `-- †Polycotylidae Reference(s): Ketchum, H. F. & Benson, R. B. J., 2010: Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses.–Biological Reviews: Vol. 85, #2, pp. 361-392 [**doi: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00107.x**] | After O'Keefe & Street, 2009 **<==**o †Cryptoclidia |-- †Cryptoclidus | -- †Mureanosaurus `--o †Tricleidia | -- †Tricleidus_ `--+-- †Polycotylidae `--o †Aristonectidae | --+-- †Kimmerosaurus | `-- †_Tatenectes `--+-- †Aristonectes_ `-- †_Kaiwhekea Reference(s): Ketchum, H. F. & Benson, R. B. J., 2010: Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses.–Biological Reviews: Vol. 85, #2, pp. 361-392 [**doi: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00107.x**] | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | --------------------- | | --------------------- | ------------------------ | ----------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

Reference(s):

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  –Paleontological Journal: Vol. 45, #6, pp. 648-660 [**doi: 10.1134/s0031030111060037**]
• Carpenter, K., 1997: Comperative cranial anatomy of two North American Cretaceous plesiosaurs. 191-216
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