ENGLAND
WILTSHIRE COUNTY
OXFORD CLAY
CALLOVIAN STAGE
UPPER DOGGER EPOCH
LATE 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
Incertae sedis
non Plesiosaurus, *P. brevis
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SOUTHERN UNITED KINGDOM
ENGLAND
WILTSHIRE COUNTY
MELKSHAM
OXFORD CLAY
CALLOVIAN STAGE
UPPER DOGGER EPOCH
MIDDLE JURASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985
LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946
SUPERCOHORT: CRUROTARSI SERENO & ARCUCCI, 1990
COHORT: CROCODYLOTARSI BENTON & CLARK, 1988
MAGNORDER: SUCHIA KREBS, 1974
SUPERORDER: CROCODYLOMORPHA WALKER, 1968
GRANDORDER: CROCODILIFORMES HAY, 1930
MICRORDER: MESOEUROCROCODYLIA WHETSTONE & WHYBROW, 1983
ORDER: MESOSUCHIA EMEND HUXLEY, 1875
SUBORDER: THALATTOSUCHIA EMEND FRAAS, 1901
Family: METRIORHYNCHIDAE Fitzinger, 1843
Subfamily: METRIORHYNCHINAE Fitzinger, 1843
Metriorhynchus superciliosus
= Metriorhynchus moreli
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