SOUTH GERMANY

BAYERN (BAVARIA) STATE

STRAFSBURG NEAR GMUND

ARNIOCERAS SEMICOSTATUM ZONE

MIDDLE EARLY SINEMURIAN STAGE

LOWER LIAS EPOCH

EARLY EARLY 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

*Plesiosaurus nothosauroides

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