SOUTH AFRICA

EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE

OVERLOOKING REDHOUSE FARM

SWARTKOPS RIVER VALLEY

PICNIC BUSH SITE

SUNDAYS RIVER FORMATION

UITENHAGE BEDS

UPPER VALANGINIAN OR LOWER HAUTERIVIAN STAGE

NEOCOMIAN SUBEPOCH

LOWER EARLY CRETACEOUS EPOCH

EARLY CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

NEODIAPSIDA: BENTON, 1985

LEPIDOSAUROMORPHA: BENTON 1985

INFRACLASS: EURYAPSIDA COLBERT, 1945

SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN 1860

GRANDORDER: EOSAUROPTERYGIA emend RIEPPEL, 1994

ORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835

SUBORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835

INFRAORDER: PLIOSAUROMORPHA NOVA

Superfamily: PLIOSAUROIDEA Seeley, 1874

Family: LEPTOCLEIDIDAE White, 1940

*Leptocleidus capensis
= Plesiosaurus capensis
= Peyereus capensis

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SOUTH AFRICA

EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE

2.65 KM SOUTH OF KIRKWOOD

SUNDAYS RIVER

KIRKWOOD LOOKOUT LOCAILTY

KIRKWOOD FORMATION

VALANGINIAN STAGE

MIDDLE NEOCOMANIAN SUBEPOCH

EARLY CRETACEOUS EPOCH

EARLY CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946

SUBLEGION: DINOSAUROMORPHA BENTON & NORMAN IN BENTON, 1985

INFRALEGION: DINOSAURIFORMES NOVAS, 1992

SUPERCOHORT: DINOSAURIA OWEN, 1842

COHORT: ORNITHISCHIFORMES COOPER, 1985

MAGNORDER: ORNITHISCHIA SEELEY, 1888

SUPERORDER: NEORNITHISCHIA COOPER, 1985

GRANDORDER: ORNITHOPODA MARSH, 1871

MICRORDER: EUORNITHOPODA SERENO, 1986

ORDER: IGUANODONTIA DOLLO, 1888

Incertae sedis

*Iyuku raathi

 

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