SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO
OTERO COUNTY
COMANACHE NATIONAL GRASSLANDS
UPPER PORTION OF JUANA LOPEZ MEMBER
PRIONOCYCLUS WYOMINGENSIS AND SCAPHITES WHITFIELD ZONES
CARLILE SHALE
LATEST MIDDLE TURONIAN STAGE
LATE GALLIC SUPEPOCH
EARLY GULF EPOCH
MIDDLE CRETACEOUS
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
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: PLESIOSAUROMORPHA NOVA
EUPLESIOSAURIA O’KEEFE, 2001
Superfamily: ELASMOSAUROIDEA Cope, 1869
Family: ELASMOSAURIDAE Cope, 1869
Gen. sp indet.
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