NW GERMANY

NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA STATE

BIELEFELD-JOLLENBECK/BEUKENHORST-2 CLAY PIT

UPPER PLIENSBACHIAN STAGE

UPPER LIAS EPOCH

LOWER JURASSIC

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

Family: PLESIOSAURIDAE Gray, 1825

Gen. sp indet.

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NW GERMANY

NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA STATE

JöLLENBECK DISTRICK

BIELFELD

BEUKENHORST-2 CLAY PIT

MIDDEL AMLTHEUS SUBNODOSUS SUBZONE

AMALTHEUS MARGARITATUS ZONE

UPPER PLIENSBACHIAN STAGE

UPPER LIAS EPOCH

LOWER JURASSIC

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

Family: PLESIOSAURIDAE Gray, 1825

*Arminisaurus schuberti

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GERMANY

NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA STATE

CLAY PIT

PLIENSBACHIAN STAGE

LOWER LIAS EPOCH

MIDDLE JURASSIC

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

Family: PLESIOSAURIDAE Gray, 1825

*Westphalisaurus simonsensii

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GERMANY

NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA STATE

BIELEFELD

FORMER CLAY PIT OF COMPANY CLEAR HORST

"CAPRICOMU-SCHICHTEN"

PLIENSBACHIAN STAGE

LIAS EPOCH

EARLY JURASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

INFRACLASS: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

NEODIAPSIDA: INCERTAE SEDIS

OR AMNIOTA: INCERTAE SEDIS

MAGANORDER: ICHTHYOPTERYGIA BAUR, 1887 emend nova

SUPERORDER: EOICHTHYOSAURIA MOTANI, 1999

GRANDORDER: ICHTHYOSAURIA EMEND BLAINVILLE, 1835

MICRORDER: LONGIPINNATI HUENE, 1948

ORDER: MERRIAMOSAURIA MONTANI, 1999

SUBORDER: EUICHTHYOSAURIA MONTANI, 1999

INFRAORDER: PARVIPELVIA MONTANI, 1999

PARVORDER: NEOICHTHYOSAURIA SANDER, 2000

Superfamily: TEMNODONTOSAUROIDEA McGowan, 1974 (sensu McGowan & Montani, 2003)

Family: TEMNODONTOSAURIDAE McGowan, 1974

Temnodontosaurus sp

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